Bury hill trip with Robyn

Trip to bury hill (late!!) this afternoon ......bit of a 'tricky' drive down there with more than 1 wrong turning and a trip round most of arundel.
Some nice finds though.....

This is a pair of 7 spot ladybirds.....the markings can be very varied.

This robber fly has caught a marmalade hover fly, it will now suck it dry...poor hover

Roesel's bush cricket

Rufous grasshopper a localised species confined to chalk grassland in southern uk

Thia small crab spider has a red mite

Tachnid flies lay eggs in the catterpillas's  of  butterflies and moths

This beauty is Phasia heieptera

This is Tachina fera , a large and common tachnid fly

Volucella hoverflies

Volucella bombylans

This one mimics the white tailed bumble bee.....quite well too

Volucella bombylans. This one mimics the red tailed bumble bee

Volucella pellucens

Volucella inflata

Volucella zonaria

Volucella inanis

I Thought I would take a few minutes to share my pics of the 5 types of british Volucella hoverflies.

In the beginning............

So this is blog day 1.....
I haven't been out yet today with my trusty camera, so I don't have a lot to offer in terms of pics. I did go out yesterday tho, so I will post a few pics from then.....

 This is one of the more common british hoverflies which likes to pretend it's a bee or wasp I reacon it does a great job myself.

 Another common but beautiful bee mimic

This hoverfly is Volucella pellucens, a common woodland species. There are 5 species of Volucella in the UK, and this year I have managed to photograph all 5!!!