Probably new for VC30......9th June 2011

After a coordinated night of moth trapping all around RSPB The Lodge. Two of these seemingly insignificant micro moth appeared on a vertical sheet. It is a RDB species and hasn't been seen in Bedfordshire since 1904, if these records are even reliable. Micro recorder David Manning is currently looking at a few more, so watch this space...........

799 Neofriseria singula

Face-off on the heath

This female Andrena (probably Barbilabris) was being followed everywhere it went by the fly in the left of the image. I think the fly is a Leucophora sp. or Satellite Fly which parasitise the nests of Andrenid species.