An insect miscellany

A few insects encountered recently.

A dead digger wasp, possibly Ectemnius cephalotes, found on my kitchen windowsill.

 

Male Ruddy Darter at Holme Dunes

Female Ruddy Darter at Holme Dunes

Banded Burdock Fly at Ringstead Downs

Bees love the globe thistles in my garden. An Early Bumble-bee and a Buff-tailed Bumble-bee are sharing this flower.

Off Patch: some nationally rare, scarce and smart beasts from a foray in Dorset

Golden-ringed Dragonfly, Ballard Down, 8th July 2018

Heath Tiger Beetle, Studland, 9th July 2018

Small Blue, Durlston Head, 10th July 2018

Purbeck Mason Wasp, Hartland Moor, 10th July 2018

Cryptocephalus primarius, near Swanage, 11th July 2018

Rose Chafer, Durdle Door, 11th July 2018

Shiny Dor Beetle, Hartland Moor, 11th July 2018 

Large Marsh Grasshopper, Hartland Moor, 11th July 2018

Cliff Tiger Beetle, Eype, 12th July 2018

Heath Bee-fly, Studland, 13th July 2018

Mottled Bee-fly, Studland, 13th July 2018

Black Deerfly, Hartland Moor, 13th July 2018

Small Purple-barred, Stoborough Heath, 13th July 2018

Bee Wolfs and Ornate-tailed Digger Wasps

Male Bee Wolf, Philanthus triangulum, Holme NWT, August 16th 2015

Female Bee Wolf, Philanthus triangulum, at colony on slope above Saltings Car Park, Holme NWT, 16th August 2015

Ornate-tailed Digger Wasp, Cerceris rybyensis, Saltings Bee Wolf colony, 17th August 2015