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in West Sussex; a black one in the New Forest; a grey one breeding in the overflow of the rather unsavoury bathroom basin in a student flat when I lived in Brighton; and these almost pure white ones in my current garden. They look very good against

the rusty-red females. And there were several specimens of the distinctive large black and ashy white Andrena cineraria.Lots of the bumblebee-like Anthophora plumipes have been darting about. The all-black females are often pursued by a posse of black

.Only one butterfly graces us today, but what a beast it is; the red admiral is a truly regal creature, with its inky black splashed with red and white insignia. Even its mottled and camouflaged undersides are beautifully marked and always remind me of cut

clunking clockwork model of a beetle, it'll be feeding on the white or yellow bedstraws, drifts of which stain the surrounding fields.Sunday 8th Lizards are everywhere sunning themselves on walls and steps; everywhere we walk they are disturbed from