I have started another wildlife survey area for this year - Comberton churchyard. It is a large area covering a wide range of habitats - thanks for the invite Teresa. Here is a set of some of the bees and flies encountered yesterday staring with Mrs and Mr Adrena fulva, a very attractive red and orange bee on the wing at the moment. This is one of the very many mining bees that live in colonies in the grass or banks. The third image is another Adrena species A. nigroaenea followed by a Honey bee to show the different leg structures. The Hairy-footed Flower bee is well named and is evidently on the wing at the moment with very loud buzzing. The visitor to the grape hyacinth is a bee-mimic, the Bee Fly, which lays its eggs in mining bee nests. Even more numerous in species and numbers yesterday were other members of the diptera family including hoverflies and 'flesh' flies of various types.
