Masses of Knotted hedge parsley growing by the road in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Purple toadflax in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Curled dock as a pavement plant in Ely. #Wildflowerhour

Back in Ely yesterday and a late evening walk to see if the Bee orchids were flowering. #OrchidChallenge #WildflowerHour

Cotton grass, a fiddlehead emerging through the boardwalk and a white Bramble flower with visiting female Sphaerophoria hoverfly, Glasson Moss. #WildflowerHour

Excited to see Sundews at Glasson Moss this week. #WildflowerHour

Sweet little Cranberry flowers at Glasson Moss. #WildflowerHour

Ragwort, Buttercups and Red campion outside @carlislecathedral.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Think this is Three-nerved sandwort, minus a petal or two. Finglandrigg Wood. #WildflowerHour

Dandelion clock and Red campion, Finglandrigg Wood. #WildflowerHour

Field of Buttercups seen from Finglandrigg Wood. #WildflowerHour

A few very pretty Common dog violets still flowering in Finglandrigg Wood. #WildflowerHour

Fern, Greater stitchwort, Star of Bethlehem and Buttercups in the cool shade of Finglandrigg Wood this week. #WildflowerHour

White Herb Robert, Wigton. #WildflowerHour

Crosswort in sunshine, Wigton. 😎 #WildflowerHour

Bush vetch, Wigton. #WildflowerHour

Musk storksbill in Cheshire. #WildflowerHour

Sea radish, Thrift and Hedgerow cranesbill at Allonby this week. #WildflowerHour

Bumblebees busy in the park today. 📷 #photography

Female Eupeodes corollae on Mexican fleabane in the garden yesterday evening. #Hoverflies #Diptera

Very happy to come back home to find the red poppies hadn’t flowered and finished while we were away.

Iris #scape by the sea, Allonby.

Pleased to see Leucozona lucorum on a Bramble leaf on Glasson Moss this afternoon, a new one for me, but disappointed only to get a rubbish record shot. 💚 😭 #Hoverflies #Diptera

Excited to see this Sericomyia lappona hoverfly on Glasson Moss this afternoon, a new one for me. #Hoverflies #Diptera

Painted lady on Sea radish at Allonby this afternoon.

Tree bumblebee on Cotoneaster flowers in Wigton.

Cardinal beetle on grass, Finglandrigg Wood. #WildWebsWednesday

Sculptural effects on Stickyweed caused by the Galium gall mite. #WildWebsWednesday

Mating pair of Empis tessellata seen in Finglandrigg Wood yesterday, the female with her ‘nuptial gift’ of a dead insect, presented by the male. #WildWebsWednesday

Memorial to nature conservationist Derek Ratcliffe (1929-2005), Finglandrigg Wood.

The driveway Harebells are back in flower.

Leafcutter bee on Mexican fleabane in the garden.

Cow parsley enjoyed by a female Epistrophe diaphana hoverfly in Ely this week. #WildflowerHour

Wood avens. #WildflowerHour

Field madder and a well camouflaged weevil round the back of @theul.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Colourful poppies outside @theul.bsky.social this week. #WildFlowerShow #WildflowerHour

Hoverfly in Ely this week, wondering about Epistrophe diaphana? #Hoverflies #Diptera @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social @ianbeavis.bsky.social @willieg.bsky.social

Magic garden.

Thyme is on your side. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime

Dasysyrphus albostriatus hoverfly on Cow parsley in Ely last Saturday. #Hoverflies #Diptera

Melangyna hoverfly on Hogweed, Queen’s Road, Cambridge. #WildWebsWednesday

Watching the Bumblebees on the Geraniums this evening for #WorldBeeDay.

As I think this is a Honey Bee and it's on a cultivated hawthorn, Hybrid Cockspur Thorn, #Crataegus x lavallei (count the stigmata 😮), they probably shouldn't appear for #WorldBeeDay or #WildWebsWednesday. 😉 Outside @theul.bsky.social in #Cambridge.

It’s World Bee 🐝 Day! A day to celebrate these amazing insects, and to reflect on how we can support wild populations of 🐝 🐝 for the future. Museum collections are key in showing where bees used to be, setting baselines to understand impacts of stressors and set restoration/conservation targets

Possibly Cheilosia variabilis, resting on Dogwood. #WildWebsWednesday #Hoverflies #Diptera

Jay on Grange Road, Cambridge last month.

Interesting 'tree' on approach to @theul.bsky.social which appears to be Oak, Quercus robur, entwined with a Hawthorn looking like Hybrid Cockspur Thorn, Crataegus x lavallei. #Botany #Trees #Cambridge #Crataegus

Late Duty shadows at @theul.bsky.social. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime

Lesser stitchwort, Chettisham Meadow. #WildflowerHour @wildlifebcn.org

Green-winged orchids and buttercups in Chettisham Meadow. #WildflowerHour @wildlifebcn.org