Ann Miles Blog

 The Bee Fly is a parasite of mining bees dropping its eggs into the open burrows where the grubs feed on the bee's young. A sunny after...

Cold wind but plenty of sunshine to warm the Toft daffodil petals and encourage the insects and spiders to show themselves. ID sheet at end ...

I visited Trumpington Meadows on Monday on a cool cloudy day so no high expectations of insect activity but some interesting finds in the wo...

Unusually warm today - 18degrees at midday with very little wind brought out  a lot of insects, spiders etc including this Beetle Larva, Har...

Raining for most of the day on and off but also a bright interval or two when I ventured out with my camera to see what insects were active....