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Another post where I've loaded in photos quickly and in alphabetical order, in reverse. It's just the way it does it, honest.
All of the insects here were photographed in my back and front gardens, the Chocolate Mining Bees as I previously said, are nesting in Olive's garden but now feeding in mine. Olive's pal is worried that the bees have found Olive's Chocolate store, she has a Tardis like cupboard full of chocolate! I swear it's true.
Photos with a 300mm lens and 1.4 teleconverter, 420mm.
Best ID so far is a Gooden's Nomad Bee (Nomada goodeniana)
Gooden’s Nomad Bee (Nomada goodeniana) is one of the largest and most common Nomad bees in the UK. Nomads are wasp-like, cleptoparasites which will target unsealed pollen-stocked nest cells created by their Mining Bee hosts and lay their own eggs inside. Olive's Chocolate Mining Bees are one of it's target species
Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly, a bit worn
This one's pristine
This Red-tailed Bumblebee Queen proved very difficult to photograph, the outer flowers have been pollinated so it was feeding on the new growth underneath and often out of view
Peacock Butterfly
If I as much as move too fast in my house these Greenfinches move away, yet occasionally two came in to feed while I stood in my drive photographing bees
Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica)
Chaffinch, same as the Greenfinch above
Buff-tailed Bumblebee Queen
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