My first ever live encounter with a Javelin Wasp scoping out one of my solitary bee hotels in my wildlife garden. This species of wasp featured in the BBC iplayer program “My Garden of a Thousand Bees” belonging to wildlife film-maker Martin Dohrn. Well worth a watch if you have not seen it.

Meadow crane’s-bill and Oxeye Daisy mingling in an urban local nature reserve meadow #WildflowerHour

A Narcissus Bulb Fly that started life as a larval grub chomping its way through a daffodil bulb deep underground to become a bumble bee mimic that feeds on nectar and pollen. One of many Oxeye Daisy #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour

Red Admiral Butterfly. Burnt orange, sun bleached timber fence. #InsectThursday

Farm track refuge. Pineappleweed and Hedgerow Crane’s-Bill avoiding the gigantic tyres of overarching farmland machinery #WildflowerHour

Common Daisy amongst Fox-and-cubs #ChurchyardFlowers by chance until the next mow? #WildflowerHour

Unexpected Asteracae Movements in the Dark. Some late night Botany with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in the grounds of Lincoln Castle, Lincolnshire

It must be extremely irksome to have all this “green” unruly vegetation in an urban green space on the other side of the garden fence. So much so that this resident felt the need to spray a harmless narrow lightly managed, not so unruly “verge” to perhaps stake their “tidy weed free boundary” claim

I have rarely seen Mullein Moth caterpillars on the Mullein plant out in rural Lincolnshire and was unaware that they also fed on garden Buddleia. One of eight caterpillars found on the now sacrificial dwarf Buddleia in the garden. #WildWebsWednesday

A magnificent Musk Thistle in a Lincolnshire pasture #WildFlowerHour

Knotted-Hedge parsley is also doing well under the rotary washing line. #LawnFlowers #WildFlowerHour

A great #WildfowerHour drying day for the Oxeye Daisy #LawnFlowers under the rotary washing line.

A South Lincolnshire field awash with Oxeye Daisy against a heavy sky laden with showers. The Haverholme Priory on the horizon started life as a Gilbertine Monastery in 1139 eventually remodelled in the 1830s as a Gothic country house, falling into ruinous disrepair and dismantlement by the 1920s.

A consumer of pollen and nectar. A metallic green Thick-legged Flower Beetle perched, on a so far this week, unusually wet Oxeye Daisy #WildWebsWednesday

Climbing Corydalis delicately clambering through low growing bramble at the edge of a plantation woodland on the site of a former airfield munitions storage area in Lincolnshire #WildflowerHour

The fuzzy felt flowers of White Bryony climbing through the Privet hedge #WildflowerHour

Well it looks smaller than a female Common Blue and appears to be lacking the bluish tinged hairs on the thorax and abdomen. It is also perched on one of its favoured caterpillar food plants-Dove’s-foot Crane’s-bill so hopefully, a not often knowingly seen Brown Argus for #WildWebsWednesday

Absolutely hit the nail on the head. “A real physical shameless blight on the country”. Sadly, a not unexpected post bank holiday clear up for myself this morning

Shepherd’s-Purse seedheads stealing the #WildflowerHour #WildflowerShow amongst the agricultural Crimson and White Clovers at the edge of a Lincolnshire farm field

Yellow Iris and a small water feature for the #WildflowerHour #WildflowerShow

Rescued. Just about to top up the garden watering can with the saved cold water run off from the kitchen hot tap when I noticed this Angle Shades #moth floating on the surface.

Little Owl, shape-shifting for camouflage. #birds

Corn Spurrey #Tinyplants at the unploughed farmland field edge #WildFlowerHour

At first a tiny trio post of #tinyplants Common Stork’s-bill, Black Medick and Thyme-leaved Sandwort that became a quartet when I spotted a tiny glimpse of blue Wall Speedwell behind the Stork’s-bill leaf #WildFlowerHour

A Gooden’s Nomad Bee amongst the grassy undergrowth on a limestone aggregate step on a remote rural footpath South Lincolnshire #InsectThursday

A #ThickTrunkTuesday Horse Chestnut canopy rising high above its land locked location known as Godson Holt. A small suburban woodland the tree shares with other venerable Horse Chestnuts and Oak totally surrounded by housing.

In December, the Govt will decide if it will renew the glyphosate licence until 2041… • That’s 15 more years of impacts on worms, bees, soils and run-off into ponds and rivers, and glyphosate in your food. Sign Garden Organic’s petition NOW to ban this dangerous herbicide #GrowersAgainstGlyphosate.

The tiniest flowers have definitely been the most notable this past week. Another plant that I have not knowingly encountered. Thyme-leaved Sandwort, I think amongst the metal border edging of an urban Lincolnshire amenity flowerbed. #WildFlowerHour

A plant that I have never encountered before and a long way from the lowlands of Lincolnshire. A Milkwort of sorts I think, spotted on a Coniston fell in Cumbria. #WildFlowerHour

Follow the footpath. Common Hawthorn hedgerow, Cow Parsley and Dandelion clocks. #carrotsandpeas #WildFlowerHour

Bluebells, Beech and Sycamore. #ThickTrunkTuesday Ambleside, Cumbria

Approaching #ThickTrunkTuesday to the right. Lincolnshire farmland Oak.

Laying a hedge is a great winter #HedgerowChallenge and it is always a relief to see new shoots and the first Common Hawthorn flowers emerge the following season #WildFlowerHour

Wood Forget-me-not and Bluebell face their own annual #HedgerowChallenge being overshadowed by a planted Portuguese Laurel hedge surrounding a private Lincolnshire woodland #WildFlowerHour

Late afternoon sun and North Yorkshire Pickering sky shared with Colt’s-foot, Dandelion and Forget-me-not earlier in this week. #WildFlowerHour

Today’s on the way home from work Cuckooflowers amongst the Dandelions on a Lincolnshire village roadside verge #CabbageFamily #WildFlowerHour

To be fair I have not seen that many Orange Tip butterflies so far this season but there were plenty of Seven-spot Ladybirds to be seen amongst a favoured Orange Tip caterpillar food plant Garlic Mustard #WildWebsWednesday

A bonus spot of some indoor Daisies during a not always unexpected nod to botany with #JamesLive2026 at the Nottingham Arena last night.

A first time find for me of a Saxifrage so hopefully I am correct that this is Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage found at the edge of a North Yorkshire woodland path. #WoodlandPlants #WildFlowerHour

Bluebell and Greater Stitchwort, two #WoodlandPlants spilling out of the private woodland onto the public roadside verge #WildFlowerHour

What can you find flowering in woodland? That’s the challenge this week from Wildflowerhour! Post your finds using the hashtag #WoodlandPlants for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy flower-hunting!

Since my missed opportunity of seeing a #BeeFly last #WildWebsWednesday I am see them a plenty. Especially on sun warmed yellow starbursts of Lesser Celandine flowers.

The Towering Ash over the Tunnelling Blackthorn #ThickTrunkTuesday

This weeks #CowslipChallenge was to find last weeks #WildflowerHour “Story Plant” Cowslip amongst the volumes that are now surrounding it

April has us all aflutter with more beautiful butterflies and moths to look for in our gardens and green spaces 🌷🦋 What have you seen recently?

I saw two of my favourite Spring bees in the Taunton sun today: Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) and Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria). #bugsky

Finding joy in the small things! A lovely fresh female Tawny Mining bee just emerged and was out foraging in our garden today. The Wood Spurge flowers seemed to be her favourite food! 🧡📷 #MacroMonday #Photography #Nature #TheSmallThings #NativePlants #EastCoastKin

Danish Scurvygrass is racing along at mostly 60mph on the faster roads in Lincolnshire at the moment. #WildflowerHour

Grape Hyacinth garden escapees caught in the crosswind on a former Lincolnshire airfield. #WildflowerHour

From high above Ash #treeflowers look quite nondescript. I encountered these at eye level from a bridge over the River Slea, Lincolnshire. Tight clusters of purple anthers wrapped around the “burnt” black leaf bud. Turning grey/brown when they split open and disperse their pollen. #WildflowerHour