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Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) enjoying the blooms of scabious in the garden. 🐝

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A very smart male Cuckoo bee... The huge amount of yellow on this points to Vestal Cuckoo Bee (Bombus vestalis). A first for me, if so! 🐝

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Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) enjoying the blooms of scabious in the garden. 🐝

Our Russian black tomatoes are growing gangbusters! It's early June and already, the plants are taller than me and trying to escape. Send help! 🍅

This Drinker caterpillar brought me out in blotches but it was worth it to relocate him from the busy coast path. Beautiful wee beastie 😍🐛

What looks like a late Buffish Mining Bee nectaring on an umbellifer. At least I think I see an orange pollen brush in the second image... 🐝

Sea Plantain and Buck's-horn Plantain, two more species characteristic of #Northumberland coast. 🌱

Some more unusual, coastal #wildflowers from today's wander at Tynemouth. Welted Thistle, Sea Rocket, Sea Sandwort, Slender Thistle and Wild Cabbage. 🌱

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Excitement in the wildlife garden
Investigating the Prudhoe Spetchells
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The blue, the bronze and the hairy
On the hunt for urban bees
Tales from the Urban Jungle #2
Could you contribute to the North East Bee Hunt?
Croaky! – Thousands of toads make perilous mass migration to breed
Signs of Spring, by Frances Jones
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