A Norwich Garden

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Berry Catchfly (Cucubalis baccifer)

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Clover Melitta (Melitta leporina) collecting pollen from Yellow Melilot (Melilotis officinalis)

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Clover Melitta (Melitta leporina) nectaring on a Geranium

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A spider egg sack hanging from the underside of a top fence rail.

It seems to have a well developed cage of silk to help protect it?

The surface of the egg sack also covered in silk.

Pirate Spider Sp (Ero Sp)

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♂︎

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♀︎ &♂︎

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Making the final touches to a nest hole at a bee hotel.

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Escaping from a spider thread.

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This one even escaped from this encounter with an Enoplagnatha Sp (Probably Enoplagnatha ovata)

Large-headed Resin Bee (Heriades truncorum)

Really likes Ragwort. The bee's is constantly bouncing its abdomen up and down on the flowers to transfer the pollen to its hairs (scopa) on the underside.

The large mandibles give a clue to the bee's propensity to attack other bees nests and literally rip out the contents and use the nest hole themselves.

In a bee hotel you can the remains of rummaged nests hanging down from the holes.

The bee is also very adept at escaping from Spider's webs.

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Spider Sp?

Juvenile Nucteana unbratica

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Four-banded Flower Bee (Anthophora quadrimaculata) taking a moment to clean its tongue.

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Large Yellow-faced Bee (Hylaeus signatus)♂︎

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Broad Centurion (Chlloromyia formosa)

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Toadflax Brocade caterpillar (Calophasia lumula)

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The lustrous Pearl Black of the fruit of the Belladona (Atropa belladona) plant

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Psychoides filicivora - A micro moth. The larva mine the fern frond and feed on the ferns sporangia.

It then spins the sporangia into an irregular mess that the larva hides in.

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The twirl of the leaves suggests it has been used by something or nothing?

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Geomyza combinata agg

There are two species in this group currently found in the UK

Genitalia examination is difficult for the males and the females cannot be separated.

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Sweet Flag (Acorus calamus)

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Gall? Froth on Ragwort

I couldn't find this one in the Gall Society website.

Fly Sp?

Pegohylemyia seneciella

Larvae in the flower heads of Senecio jacobea. producing a cone of froth, which dries in the middle of the flower.
Found where Ragwort plants are few. In large stands there is greater probability of predation by Pegohylemyia jacobaea

Ragwort Fauna from Buglife

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Ant Damsel Bug (Nymph) (Himacerus mirmicoides)

Thanks to Vanna Bartlett for all the help with ids and suggestions for further reading.

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Broadland Country Park

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Ant Damsel Bug (Late instar nymph) (Hymacerus mirmicoides)

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Short-fringed Mining Bee (Andrena dorsata)

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Andrena Sp?

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The hairs on the thorax are long and pale but there does seem to be some dark hairs present. Clypeus hairs are pale.

Grey-banded Mining Bee ♀︎ (Andrena denticulata)

Confirmed

perhaps

or

Yellow-legged Mining Bee ? (Andrena flavipes)

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Tormentil Mining Bee (Andrena tarasata)

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Ferruginous Bee-grabber (Sicus ferrugineus)

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Ornate-tailed Digger wasp (Cerceris rybyensis) with prey.

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Big Shaggy Bee (Panurgus banksianus)?

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Bumble Bee Sp

White-tailed Bumble Bee ♂︎ (Bombus lucorum)

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Taking a Bee Sp prey into its nest.

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Ornate-tailed Digger Wasp (Cerceris rybyensis)

Underneath is an Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus)

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Tachina Sp?

Tachina fera ?

not quite

Nowikia ferox

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Fly Sp?

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Green-eyed Flower Bee ♂︎ (Anthophora bimaculata)

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Common Furrow Bee (Lasioglossum calceatum)

But no

White-zoned Furrow Bee (Lasioglossum leucozonium)

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Orange-horned Nomad Bee ♀︎ (Nomada fulvicornis)

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Roesel's Bush Cricket (Roeseliana roesellii)

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Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus)

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Wasp Plumehorn (Volucella inanis)

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Xanthogramma pedisequum senso lato

Many thanks to Nick Owens for help with corrections and ids.

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