After a long trip to and an even longer return trip back from Southampton General Hospital for my pre-op CT scan, it was back home and feet up in the back garden taking in the late afternoon sunshine.
It was a lot cooler than the 29C in Southampton, and great to just chill out and watch the insects getting on with their lives.
Below are a few photos from the garden.
A worn male Large White Pieris brassicae on Buddleia Buddleja davidii.
And here it is again showing the black dots on the underside.
And with the spots on the upper wing this is a female Large White.
A Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum on the Lavender Lavandula sp.
A worker Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius also on the Lavender.
A Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris sat an English Oak Quercus robur leaf.
A Sand Wasp Ectemnius sp.
Using Obsidentify and Google Lens they.........
..............both suggest this is an Ichneumon Wasp Tromatobia lineatoria.
A Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus sat on a Buddleia leaf.
Also sat on a Buddleia leaf was this Common Banded Hoverfly Syrphus ribesii.
On this Common Ragwort Jacobaea vulgaris is...............
...............a Common Copperback Hoverfly Ferdinandea cuprea.
