We are continuing to leave areas of our garden a little wilder this year, in order to provide food for bees and butterflies.
It’s still a little early for many of the butterflies, although I did see a swallowtail a few days ago, but we do have a lot of bees visiting, and hopefully pollenating our fruit as well as the wildflowers.
This one has found a scabious. There have been a lot of these bees (at least I think they’re a type of bee) in the garden this year. Our neighbours have some hives, so they could be visiting from there. I’ll have to ask for part shares in the honey!
Nice photo – it’s actually a bee mimic – a drone fly which is technically a hoverfly, but they are important pollinators along with the bees so great for attracting into your garden.
Really? I thought it looked a bit shifty! Ah well, it’s very welcome. We do definitely have some honey bees visiting, so I’m not relinquishing my claim to some honey 😉