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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 1d 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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G 🇮🇹22h ago

@markmccaughrean do you have these there? we commonly call them "priests" 😄 pic not very focused because it kept moving and this S24 camera in my opinion is worse than my old S8's

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Mark McCaughrean 22h ago

@ranx Wow – that's very pretty. It's a nine-spotted moth in English, Amata phegea in Latin. I haven't ever seen one, but they are occasionally photographed in this part of Germany, so I'll keep an eye out.