CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  I encountered this lovely little female tawny mining bee Andrena fulva , provisioning her newly-excavated nest tunnel with pollen, on the ...

There seemed to be dark-edged bee-flies Bombylius major all over the garden during most of April, either sunning themselves on stones or c...

This is a sight to gladden the heart if, like me, you grow soft fruit: a tawny mining bee Andrena armat...

Tawny mining bees often visit our garden, sometimes feeding on the gooseberry flowers in spring, but I've never managed to find evidence...