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It's sunny & warming today, but I can't say I'm looking forward to the 35ºC temperatures predicted this time next week 🥵

Anyway, we have some new visitors to the garden.

First, a nice macro stack of a birch catkin bug (Kleidocerys resedae; 🇩🇪 Birkenwanze).

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Mark McCaughrean 22h ago

Second, a black banded bee fly (Hemipenthes morio). The German name is much more interesting: it's the Zickzacklinien-Trauerschweber.

Nothing like as good a picture, because it ran me a merry chase from flower to flower, landing only briefly, then flying off when it sensed I was moving in to take a shot 🤷‍♂️🙄

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And there are many goldenrod crab spiders (Misumena vatia; 🇩🇪Veränderliche Krabbenspinne) in the flowers, waiting patiently for unsuspecting bees & other insects to land nearby.

Making them great subjects for a macro stack.

As the German name suggests, they're very variable colour-wise, this one in all lemon.