More arbitrarily selected bugs from today:

Bombylius major, bee-fly
Vespula sp., wasp (queen)
Bombus terrestris, bumblebee (queen!)
Tiny wasp from the Ichneumonoidea?

#Derbyshire #insects #bees #bumbebees #wasps #macrophotography #macroMonday
A small, arbitrary fraction of today's bugs (the term 'bugs' being used particularly loosely):

Andrena cineraria, mining bee
Nomada sp.?, nomad bee
Wolf spider from the Lycosidae
Palomena prasina, shieldbug

#Derbyshire #insects #spiders #bees #shieldbugs #macrophotography #macroMonday

UK's best pasta restaurant hidden in market town just 30 minutes from Manchester

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Some hedge-oriented #bloomscrolling - #Derbyshire, April 2026...

#flowers #hedges #macrophotography

I loved these very cute pigeon babies and mum in their lantern fortress. Kudos to Mum for building that nest, there!

#bird #Derbyshire #urbanExploration #abandoned

Been busy - but with the spring sunshine this week? Bugs galore! And I finally managed to get some photos of bee-flies - Bombylius major.

Cute, round and fluffy? Of *course* they're parasites - lobbing eggs into the nests of solitary bees...

#Derbyshire #insects #macrophotography #flies #beeflies
Another honour for The Greatest Gathering http://dlvr.it/TRq3JH #Derby #Derbyshire #Infrastructure #Network
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