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Sunday 15 April 2018

Dark-edged Bee-fly, Bombylius major in Kingswood, Surrey, UK

A Dark-edged Bee-fly Bombylius major on a mud-splattered leaf on the path in the Long Plantation, Shabden Park, Kingswood, Surrey, https://www.surreywildlifetrust.org/reserves/shabden-park
Scary? Only if you are a solitary bee like the one below laden with pollen and making a nest in the cracks in the clay soil of my Sussex garden yesterday.

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