I couldn’t find this thread a moment ago. I think I had a similar bee to your yellow one from the previous page, @BobTheGardener. It was digging in the sand. I’ve seen some bee flies as well. Nice!
I'm puzzled by my black bee above. To me - though the vid is fast and blurred - it looks like an all black bumble. There doesn't seem to be any coloured tail.
I can't make it out sorry but some cuckoo bees are all black, and one of the forms of ruderal bumblebee I think. Melanistic forms of bumblebees are also a thing.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Today, a bee fly, a peacock butterfly, small tortoiseshell, orange tip and a brimstone, very yellow fluttering around. Also five now squashed lily beetles.
I'll probably be the only person here who's glad to see a lupin aphid but it all adds to the biodiversity of the garden. This double-striped pug moth nudges me up to 60 moth species now too. All found without a light trap.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@wild edges 60 moth species, that sounds incredible! The pic of the Lupin aphid is much classier than that of the moth, however. I hope for your lupin's sake that it was a lone visitor.
That's 60 identified and photographed too, I've got another 10-15 that I haven't managed to stick an ID on yet and a few more that I've so far failed to pursuade to sit still long enough for a portrait.
Aphids don't seem to last long in my garden but while I was weeding the pots I found a group that had hidden from the birds. So far I've only found 10 species of aphid but there must be more about (if I can beat the birds to them).
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