Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica)





Nettle Ground Bug (Heterogaster urticae)





Duke of Argyll's Tea-tree - Matrimony Vine (Lyceum barbarum)





Red-thighed Epeolus ♀︎ (Epeolus cruciger)

The Cuckoo Bee

of









Heather Mining Bee (Colletes succinctus)









Ichneumon Wasp sp ?





Micro Moth Sp?

Common Nettle-tap (Anthophila fabriciana)

Thanks to Gill Judd for id.







Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)





Hairs bands seem to be uninterrupted.









White hairs on the clypeus.





Sharp-tailed Bee Sp ♀︎(Coellioxys Sp) ?

Probably Shiny- vented Sharp-tail Bee Coelioxys inermis

Thanks to Nick Owens for comments.

Coelioxys id













Field Digger Wasp (Mellinus arvensis) ?











Nysson trimaculatus ♀︎ ?



Syrphus Sp?

Tags: CliffMiningBee, DukeofArgyll'sTeaTree, Red-thighedEpeolus, CommonNettle-tap, NettleGroundBug, Shiny-ventedSharp-tailBee, FieldDiggerWasp, PaintedLady, Sharp-tailedBee Sp

Lady's Bedstraw (Galium verum)



Common Blue ♀︎ (Polyommatus icarus) on Carline Thistle (Carline vulgaris)



Bramble Sp



Cardinal Beetle Sp









Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris)









Yellow-legged Clearwing (Synanthedon vespiformis)











Creeping Lady's-Tresses (Goodyera repens)



Comma (polygonia c-album)







Fleabane (Erigeron acris)



Hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum)



Fly Sp?



Fly Sp?



Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus)



Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)



Peacock (Aglais io)

Lots of Peacock flying today.





Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

Quite a smattering to Red Admirals too.



Sawfly Sp Common Rose Sawfly perhaps?






Common Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina) Final instar nymph



Slime Mold Sp



Fungus Sp?







Spaerophoria Sp? Dark-footed Twist-tailed Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria philanthus) perhaps.



Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera)









Wasp Sp? Intermediate Digger Wasp (Crabro peltarius) perhaps?











Ornate-tailed Digger Wasp (Cerceris rybyensis)



















Yellow-faced Bee Sp (Hylaeus Sp) Possibly Hylaeus pectoralis? Mating next to the reedbed on the Sowthistle just before the Meal's House

Confirmed

Reed Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus pectoralis)

Thanks to Nick Owens for confirming id.

Tags: Lady'sBedstraw, CommonBlueButterfly, CarlineThistle, WallBrown, CommonGreenShieldbug, Fleabane, Yellow-leggedClearwing, CreepingLady's-Tresses, HollyBlue, PaintedLady, Peacock, RedAdmiral

Large Gorse Mining Bee (Andrena bimaculata) ?

With the orange markings on the gasters



Ant Sp? on Bramble Sp?



Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica) & Ant Sp & Bramble Sp









Bramble Sp



Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)



Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)









Long back legs suggest a Spider Hunting Wasp.

Wasp Sp ?





Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)

Tags: LargeGorseMiningBee, AntSp, CliffMiningBee, BrambleSp, Wasp?, PaintedLady, FieldBindweed, SmallTortoiseshell

Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)





Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)







Dunlin (Calidris alpina)



















































The odd Turnstone too.









Knot (Calidris canutus) & Dunlin (Calidris alpina)







Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)



Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) on a Teasle (Dipsacus inermis)














Dark bodied form of the Honey bee (Apis mellifera)









Wilke's Mining Bee perhaps ? (Andrena wilkella)

became

Andrena dorsata - Very short hairs on the hind tibia and the thorax has a rufus colour rather than just brown as in A wilkella

Thanks to Nick Owens for comments and id.

Red bodied form of theHoney Bee (Apis mellifera)





Orache Sp?





Sea Beet seed pods (Beta vulgaris maritima)



Sae Holly (Eryngium bourgatii)





















Silver Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile leachella)









Common Spiny Digger Wasp (Oxybelus uniglumis)









Spider hunting wasp (Epysiron rufipes)

Tags: Landscape, Turnstone, Black-tailedGodwit, SeaBeet, Dunlin, Epysironrufipes, CommonSpinyDiggerwasp, Silverleaf-cutterBee, CommonTern, Teasle, Knot, LargeGorseMiningBee, LargeGorseMiningBee, Oystercatcher, PaintedLady