Clinging onto bumblebee season by taking a trip to the North Pennines on the search for Broken-belted Bumblebees 🔎 Males at Low Force, Bowlees Quarry and on a verge full of Devil’s-bit Scabious, with lovely male Heath Bumblebees along the way too 🐝

What a treat to find a Nightjar roosting on the arm of your garden bench!

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Another amazing few hours amongst the Bees, delighted to find Andrena marginata and it’s cuckoo Nomada argentata Steven Falk Brigit Strawbridge

I took my last bee hotel down today and with it my beautiful cloud of wool carder cocoons. I gently took it apart and counted 13! That’s 13 wool carder bees that will safely overwinter in my shed. I’ll put them back outside in sping 💚🐝

Marvellous Moth Jigsaw anyone? It's SUCH a lovely puzzle... and everything I get from jigsaw sales goes straight into our wildlife garden. ebay.co.uk/itm/1460148176… #Moths

I gave this drawing a title today; ‘The Bluebell Walk’.

Another one for the wish list!

Huge numbers of Ivy Bees and high levels of nesting activity on the warm and lightly-vegetated banks of the Suffolk Sandlings today, presumably due to the current and ongoing emergence of the females! SuffolkWildlifeTrust Suffolk BIS Brigit Strawbridge

Can you help Bulgarian research #entomologist, Radoslav Valkov purchase a flash system and macro lenses - so he can produce documentary output up to the highest scientific standards? Do please have a look, and donate if you can 🦋 gofundme.com/f/help-radosla…

Also an important source of pollen & nectar for late season butterflies, hoverflies, hornets, bumblebees, and so many other insects... not to mention the cover it provides for birds and other small creatures! Check out what Woodland Trust🌳 say about Ivy woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-an…