Peter I put photos of a very similar wasp on the BWARS Facebook and it was ID's as A.trifasciatus- by Tim Strudwick -maybe see what he says. Ben Hargreaves has said A scotica yet thought Tim S was the expert. Lastly, Falk "modern records mostly confined to the coast and evidence of a substantia...

Or in vernacular "Five-spotted Club-horned Wasp" -either way a mouthful.
Parasite of Osmia bees
On ragwort in garden before capture

Great pic Tony -they're having a good year generally and the next generation looks like it is on the way near you

Bee -either Andrena minutula or A subopaca -based on my records-and will only be verified from specimens, it seems. Nice find.

Great photo, Paul -we really should have a competition of "Photos from my Phone" -this would be in with a good chance.

Great find on the Gorytes, Gareth-excellent pics for the ID to be accepted by Ben H -usually mine are not up to scratch!

Peter -just posted a sighting in our garden that could be A.gazella or A. parietum on iRecord -to be verified (or not). Apparently not recognised as two species until 1954. Ben Hargreaves's L&CFS book has 40 records for gazella in Lancashire, fewer for parietum. May well be the case of a first f...

Rough grassland with large patches of bramble and areas of marsh and creeping thistle plus stands of spear thistle, hogweed and ragwort so excellent for pollinators of all sorts. Butterflies/moths-10+ of small skipper and meadow brown; 2 large white, 2 small tortoiseshell;cinnabar caterpillars on ra...

19.00hrs - 21.30hrs Grade 2 walk Meet at the entrance to the site on North bound side of Preston Road, Coppull. OS SD 55441. 12685 or WhatThreeWords ///snapped.looks.handover. Parking is available for a few cars at that location but parking on the roadside of Coppull Moor Lane is an alternative. If ...

Very probable Colletes daviesanus-I think-a regular in our garden-lovely bee to have around.

Also in our garden, Great Knowley, Peter: suspect they are under recorded as look quite like a small bumblebee -though admittedly, the yellow face of male is unmistakable.

Masses of flowers on the canal bank -meadowsweet, hogweed, greater knapweed, hedge and marsh woundwort, spotted orchid, hemlock water droplet,red clover, oxeye daisy, bistort, yarrow, ragwort, bramble, bindweed, dandelion, greater stichwort. In the fields great drifts of marsh and creeping thistle w...

Think the amphibian could be a toadlet, Len, given skin texture and paratoid glands being pretty prominent; either way good to see

Seen daily -blue tit ,great tit, goldfinch, house sparrow, blackbird -all with juveniles plus very regular GSW juveniles, dunnock,robin, woodpigeon, bullfinch, greenfinch. Goldcrest now established in the locality. Heard regularly but rare visitors-chiffchaff and song thrush, Mammals -grey squirrel ...

Excellent find Peter -bees are very fond of hardy geraniums especially this species -need to look on mine even more carefully now!