Bee aggressive, bee bee aggressive

Another good lunch break at Cullaloe took me over the 250 with some nice big bees and a new/not-new fly. Fly first, since I need to explain. Hydromya dorsalis was in the list of diptera for the reserve but somehow never made it to the total list, so it was recorded, but not counted. Anyway, now it's both and I get to count it as an addition. This was swept on damp pathside, so not a Willow hit.

An actual addition was Andrena clarkella, a female of which evaded me several times the other day, but which I was able to nail down today. Shocking pictures, sadly. However some other new additions today of nice, easy-to-identify with live pictures.

Bombus hypnorum, Tree Bumblebee

Bombus lapidarius, Red-tailed

Saltus scenicus, where it always in when it's sunny

Kidney-spot Ladybird. Not new, but numerous

Tachina ursina. One of my favourites

So here are today's additions, taking us over the quarter way mark to 1k.

249 380 hymen Bombus pascuorum Common Carder Bee

250 380 hymen Bombus lapidarius   Red-tailed Bumblebee

251 170 spider Saltus scenicus         Zebra spider

252 340 diptera Cheilosia grossa       A hover fly

253 340 diptera Meliscaeva auricollis A hoverfly

254 R 340 diptera Hydromya dorsalis     A Snail-killing Fly

255 R 380 hymen Andrena clarkella       Clarke's Mining Bee

256 340 diptera Anatopynia plumipes  A non-biting midge

257 370 butterfly Aglais urticae          Small Tortoiseshell