9 years of successful breeding in the Norwich area seems fairly established, similar in Cambs and presumably some southern counties. The Walled Garden in Little Plumstead is the easiest place to see them.

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.

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.