Each year I look forward visiting a site near Sandy and spending several hours recording the various insects that make their home in the sandy soils. Unfortunately (not the right word!!) this year the site has been more or less trashed with cans, litter, broken glass and the remains of BBQs everywhere over the area. So I visited RSPB Sandy heathland instead and relaxed for a couple of hours among the various insects that make their home there. There were limited numbers but a very good range as the following photos show from Beewolf wasps, Ornate-tailed digger Wasps and Epeolus cruciger Red-thighed Cellophane Cuckoo bee. There were also plenty of the Red-banded Sand wasps - this one relentlessly dragging a large caterpillar over long distances and large numbers of what I think is Hedychrum niemelai a cuckoo wasp that is relatively new to our shores.
