Hucclecote and a visit to a neighbour and the field today this spring Saturday 8th April 2023

Zo Clark 09/04/2023 00:16

Buzzy garden and trip to the Liberty Orchard

Mining Bee (solitary Bee family)

Crab spider

Hoverfly

Another fly but not a hoverfly

This is how small it is. These fellas are hard to see until they land but they hover

and when they finally land it helps to take a close up

Robin

And this time- not carder and not tree bumblebee but tawny mining bee (another bee from the - solitary bee, family, )

Now we do have a Bumblebee and a very small species at that

next we go to the orchard

Honey bee pollinating

An insect feeding on nector and pollen

then later I see a 16 spot ladybeetle on a grass stem

wolf spiders were also out and enjoying the sun too the spider wasn’t interested even in close proximity to the ladybeetle

there was a couple of the spiders and ladybeetles so they were bound to run into each other often

When the ladybeetle came down it went into the spider and

felt it then nipped which gave the spider a fright the spider tryed to avoid the ladybeetle but the ladybeetle kept following it and pestering it and circling it which made the spider cautious wary and uncomfortable and constantly looking around looking for an opening to get away then the ladybeetle kept trying to give it a nip so the spider ran off

I definitely wouldn’t say the ladybeetle got along with the spider since the spiders were just batheing or running across the ground hunting things and ignored the ladybeetles until they noticed him or her whils minding there own business but other than that there was definitely a lot of 16 spot ladybeetles. I didnt get a photo of all of them.
but here’s one through my magnifying glass