Trimingham is the only one place I know in East Anglia where I can reliably find Andrena nigripes. Today, at least 9 females were visiting in ragwort, knapweed and mignonette.

I think this is the larva of Alder Clubhorn, Cimbex connatus, under Alder trees at Broadland Country Park, Norfolk, yesterday.

Ceropales maculata, our prettiest spider-hunting wasp, not seen in Norfolk since 1986, but found today at Middle Harling Heath. The Giant Blood-Bee was also new for the site and 122nd bee species I have found there.

Andrena nitidiuscula/Carrot Mining Bee, first Norfolk record at Downham Market, found by Stephen Patmore on 14th and confirmed today. Previously found no further north than S. Essex so a big range extension.

No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree.
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Just thinking Sweet Briar Marshes was a little dull entomologically, then got this tiny one under the microscope. Nitela lucens - a new species and genus for me and for Norfolk.

A nice selection of cleptoparasites and parasitoids of Osmia bees and relatives in my small garden this morning: Monosapyga clavicornis, Sapyga quinquepunctata, Stelis phaeoptera and Chrysura radians. Monosapyga was my first garden record.

This male Bombus jonellus was a surprise among 32 species of bee in and around The Walled Garden at Little Plumstead this morning, and nice to see a paper wasp Polistes dominula in the churchyard next door.

Another weekend and another Giant Blood Bee at a new Norfolk site - Broome Heath. Another recent UK colonist, Lasioglossum sexstrigatum, was there too. These two seem to like the same places.