Common Carder bee, Red-tailed Cuckoo bee, butterflies, a Burnet moth and the Labyrinth spider, Agelena labyrinthica yesterday in a Sussex meadow..

 I came here yesterday to photograph Frog Orchids -- successfully.  The insects were great too and are shown first.  Six Orchid species to follow: Bee, Fly, Common Spotted, Southern Marsh, Pyramidal and Frog Orchids.  It was a great day out.

Common Carder bee on Yellow Rattle.

A Red-tailed Cuckoo Bee, Bombus rupestris with pollen beetles.  It isn't collecting pollen.  Why should it?  It is a parasite of the Red-tailed Bee, Bombus lapidarius.

 Six-spot Burnet moth, Zygaena filipendulae

Male Meadow Brown butterfly sharing a bramble flower with a male Fat-legged Flower beetle, Oedemera nobilis.

 Another Brown butterfly -- the Marbled White

 A Spotted Crane Fly, Nephrotoma appindiculata

 It was drizzling rain, which highlighted the webs of Funnel spiders beautifully.

 Here is a Labyrinth spider, Agelena labyrinthica.

See the excellent site  http://www.uksafari.com/labyrinth.htm for more info'.

UK spiders are not harmful to most people and are really fascinating... at least to me.
An illustrated talk has been prepared.  Details can be seen at http://www.peterlovetttalks.co.uk/page14.html

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