Wonderful wildlife

Self-taught amateur entomologist Sabina George has been snapping super pictures of the creatures you may or may not have noticed in residence on your plots. A keen insect photographer who spends winter recording finds on iRecord (a database for UK Flora & Fauna), Sabina is always looking for new sites to explore and KATA was only too willing to take up her offer of having a looksie at what goes on around us on a sometimes very small scale…

latest sightings

A walk around the top path of Odibourne Allotments on March 24th showed
how useful early flowering wild flowers are to insects.  The large
patches of Red Deadnettle and Lungwort attracted several male Hairy
Flower bees noisily darting from flower to flower. I counted eight,
7-spot Ladybirds and a pair of 24-spot Ladybirds mating on a wide blade
of grass. A male Bee-fly and female Hoverfly found the  welcome patch of
yellow Celandine. Two Andrena mining bees, the female with pollen-filled
legs shows that nesting has begun. The odd dandelion around means more
food will soon be available to attract our beneficial insects. Sabina George

All words courtesy of Sabina George. Thank you for regularly visiting our sites, Sabina, and keeping us up to date on your findings about this vital group of organisms.