more insect activity!

On Saturday two buff-tailed bumblebees were seen at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens by David Adamson, with two hoverflies and a seven-spot ladybird there too.  On Mother’s Day, our garden was graced by a queen common wasp Vespula vulgaris (a useful pollinator in summer, e.g. of violet helleborine!) and the first mosquito of the year.  The previous day a buff-tailed bumblebee queen visited the flowers of winter hazel.