Another one from the camera reel: grass moth Agriphila inquinatella, Pound Bank, Malvern 8.8.25 🦋💚🍃

Very few spider species have been added to the garden list this year, but there are one or two who probably have been here all along, like common linyphiid Neriene montana found today hiding within the coils of a dragonfly ornament 🕷💚🍃

Take two, apologies video seemed to not upload properly first time. Arachnophobia therapy provided by Attulus pubescens 🕷💚🍃

Undisputed star of last night’s trap was NFG Dark Crimson Underwing, but supporting cast of NFG Broad-barred White (2nd gen?), NFY Square-spot Rustic, Six-striped Rustic, and Hypsopygia glaucialis, plus a battered White-point, my 2nd this year. Phil Andrews BC Warwickshire

A couple of hours, long overdue, Worcs Wildlife Trust Tiddesley Wood this afternoon, a fab woodland reserve which never disappoints. Bit of a surprise to find two or three male Ivy Bees (Colletes hederae) nectaring on Hemp Agrimony (Eupatoria cannabinum) - easily my earliest record! 🐝💚🍃

Favourite find Worcs Wildlife Trust Tiddesley Wood today this male velvet ant - Myrmosa atra, on angelica flowers - my first encounter with a mutillid wasp! The female is smaller red & black & wingless, very ant-like. A cool insect which is a cuckoo of small ground-nesting crabronids 💚🍃

At Tiddesley Wood, Worcs yesterday *lots* (>30) of bugs making more bugs on a patch of Common Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica) - does flower choice have a bearing on ID? - Nysius senecionis is suggested 👾💚🍃

Visiting angelica a lovely Ectemnius sp solitary wasp at Tiddesley Wood yesterday 💚🍃

Last not least from Tiddesley Wood, Worcs - another wasp, this one a braconid in subfamily Agathidinae - jet black, with long ovipositor targeting unknown stem-boring lepidopteran larva in fleabane 💚🍃

In the garden on a rhubarb leaf a very interesting little chalcid wasp. <2mm, hairy, distinctive red iridescence to scutellum. Probably not possible to say from photo but I've found an encyrtid good fit, would be grateful for your thoughts Jaswinder Boparai (& Gavin's too?) TIA 💚🍃

Stuck in a holding pattern with the light trap, some perfectly lovely moths but for the past three sessions very little new. An Old Lady batted about the garden last night but didn't land. So I give you a Common Wainscot, uncommon here this year & one of my great favourites🦋💚🍃

Vapourer moth (Orgyia antiqua) caterpillar on garden rose, never less than amazing 🐛💚🍃

Another meeting with female ichneumon Zaglyptus multicolor (Pimplinae) - she allowed a better pic this time, on a window in a pause from spider egg-sac-seeking 💚🍃

Nigma walckenaeri is an adaptable little spider. This female has been living on our back door for weeks 🕷💚🍃

Tatty, but a sight for sore eyes was a Red Underwing this morning, Burnished Brass adding some bling & little Psychoides filicivora hiding out in the kitchen- 3 welcome nfys. 28 Vine's Rustic, a third of the catch, included 2 who just couldn't wait to make more. Worcs VC37 🦋💚🍃

Ichneumon male Syrphophilus bizonarius (Diplazontinae) in the garden this afternoon. Syrphophilus means "liker of hoverflies" - for all the wrong reasons from the hoverflies' point of view 💚🍃