14 Aug 25

Wakeham

Here are few photos and videos from the back garden this afternoon.

A male Common Darter Sympetrum striolatum and a................

.........female. Both.........

...............were around the "Bath Tub" pond.

A worker Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius having a clean up until it got blown off the leaf it was on.

Buff-tailed Bumblebees Bombus terrestris, Common Carder Bees Bombus pascuorum and Honey Bees Apis mellifera in amongst the Lavender.

On the Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris is a Common Furrow-bee Lasioglossum calceatum and below it a Parasitic Wasp sp.

A better photo of a Common Furrow-bee and...............

............another one in flight.

A Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris having a sip of water from this flower pot.

Thick-legged hoverfly Syritta pipiens

Pied Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri.

Red-spotted Parasite Fly Eriothrix rufomaculata