Sunday 22 June 2014

Great Comp

Arrived about 2:40 in warm but sometimes overcast weather, certainly not as hot as it was earlier. Immediately we had a look at the plants for sale a tiny black bee was seen in numbers investigating the Campanula flowers on the bench. This was I am nearly certain Chelostoma campanularum, almost confined to members of his family.

There were dozens of Episyrphus balteatus on the wide range of flowers available, and there was also my first

A large fat bee is most likely to have been a Megachile species


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