Houghen Plantation

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Short Fringed Mining Bee (Andrena dorsatta) perhaps ?

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White-tailed Bumble Bee ♂︎ (Bombus lucorum)

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Eristalis pertinax ♂︎

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Heather Mining Bee (Andrena fuscipes)

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Platycheirus fulviventris ♀︎ perhaps?

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Melanostoma scalare ♀︎

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Common Green Shield Bug - 3rd Instar Nymph (Palomena prasina)

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Ling (Calluna vulgaris)

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Rush Sp

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Ornate Tailed Digger Wasp (Cerceris rybyensis)

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Sloe Bug (Dolycorus baccarum)

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Short-winged Conehead ♂︎ (Conocephalus dorsalis)

Not quite

The conehead is a female Long-winged Conehead nymph - nymph
because the stripe is black not brown (hence why the wings aren't fully developed)

Thanks to @NorfolkNats for the id correction.


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Spider Sp

The images below I thought were

Tormentil Mining Bee (Andrena tarsata)

Things are never quite that simple.

Apparently there are a number of A dorsata in amongst these pictures.

Nick Owens comment

Some of the tormentil bees are Andrena dorsata – but very worn. They have more distinctive white side-bands and rufous hairs on the thorax – also a bit bigger I think.
The tibia is dark not orange as in A. tarsata though you can’t see this under the pollen.

So I'm going to put a D to ones I think are A dorsata looking for the distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs on the thorax.


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?

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White side Bands not distinctive and no visible rufous hairs.

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White side Bands not distinctive and no visible rufous hairs.

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White side bands too distinctive perhaps

D

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White side Bands not distinctive. A touch of orange on the thorax?

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White side Bands not distinctive.

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White side Bands not distinctive but visible orange hairs on thorax.

D?

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White side Bands not distinctive but visible orange hairs on thorax.

D?

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Difficult ?

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Rufous hairs on thorax D

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White side bands not distinctive and no rufous hairs.

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White side bands not distinctive and no rufous hairs.

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Distinctive side bands - D

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Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D

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Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D

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Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D

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Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D

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Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D

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?

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Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D

Tormentil Mining Bee (Andrena tarsata)

Things are never quite that simple.

Apparently there are a number of A dorsata in amongst these pictures.

Nick Owens comment

Some of the tormentil bees are Andrena dorsata – but very worn. They have more distinctive white side-bands and rufous hairs on the thorax – also a bit bigger I think.
The tibia is dark not orange as in A. tarsata though you can’t see this under the pollen.

So I'm going to a D to ones I think are A dorsata

Thus If I managed to find one Tormentil Mining Bee I was lucky.

Next Year!!


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Tormentil (Potentilla erecta)

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Black-banded Spider Wasp (Anoplius viaticus)






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