It is still fairly quiet on the insect front but Lawrence Rogers got some great shots the other day of several species of solitary bee and wasp in the wildlife garden.

I will add more names once I have fathomed them all out!

Ichneumon wasp

You can see the ocelli on the head between the true eyes of this little bee.

Nomada sp wasp (I think)

Andrena bee sp (again note the ocelli)

and I think that this one is Tawny Mining Bee....

More to come on this post I think!

25-5-13

Howard Vaughan, Information Officer