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This fluffy chap (you can tell he’s a chap because his eyes meet in the middle, as opposed to females whose eyes don’t meet) is a dark-edged bee-fly, Bombylius major . Although the UK has ten different species of bee-fly, this is the largest and most common; it can be recognised from others...

There have been some welcome signs of spring today at Strumpshaw Fen with 3 kinds of butterfly on the wing and dozens of mining bees swarming along the footpath. These little bees are waking up just in time for the short-lived abundance of willow pollen which the females collect as food for their young...

Frenetic insect activity still in the ivy bush by the main gate, whilst every thing else that could fly and buzz was, this laid back specimen just wandered slowly around the leaf!

Ivy is not universally loved. I remember once reading an article in the newsletter of a local wildlife organisation describing the great danger that ivy posed to trees and the countryside and how due to lack of control it was taking over Norfolk. I was alarmed, not by the prospect of Norfolk and its...

Taken on the Meadow

Found on the boardwalk... my first Swallowtail caterpillar! I wasn't 100% sure at first but then I saw it flick out the smallest of osmeteriums! (Taken: 17th July, 2012.)

On buddleia behind Reception (taken: 17th July, 2012). Not to be confused with Leucozona lucorum!

This Hornet was on an old tree truck in the wood just pass the reception at Strumpshaw.