Bee-flies and blossom: what could be nicer? Blackthorn is flowering in all the hedgerows in the village (though sadly not in our own little wildlife hedge, which isn’t yet mature enough), and the early emergers among the season’s nectar feeders … Continued
This morning I sat at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and wrote out a list of everything that needs doing to bring the garden back into some kind of order, trying to divide the elephant task into … Continued
It doesn’t take long for the male Hairy-footed Flower Bees to lose their bright chestnut colouring and fade to an insipid elegant ash blonde (much like my own). By now they’re hanging around the pulmonaria like a phantom horde, and … Continued
Technically, it wasn’t all that cold today. But it felt cold, and not just to me: extensive trawling of the garden this afternoon harvested just one Hairy-footed Flower Bee, one Buff-tailed Bumblebee, two hoverflies, one weevil, three ladybirds and a … Continued
