The hairy red / orange thorax and abdomen of the female tawny mining bees make them easy to identify.
Get their name from excavating their living quarters, preferring soil on south-facing slopes.
Male orange tip butterfly which visited almost every alkanet flower in garden before flying off to investigate other gardens nearby.
Usually a shy butterfly.
Only the males have the orange tips to the wings.
Horsetails – primitive flowerless plants from out of the dawn of time – and hated by gardeners because they are very hard to get rid of.
These are growing where a pavement meets a garden wall.
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#lockdown #TeamWolverhampton – spider
Large spider disturbed in a sheltered area outsideyesterday.
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#lockdown – more rainbows
Another set of pictures of rainbows in the windows of houses in streets near where I live – plus one of the images chalked on a pavement.
Show support for NHS and all essential workers at 8 pm tonight.
Another visitor sampling the seeds and fat balls in a garden feeder – a bluetit.