Whitethroat drinking sweet nectar from the flowers of a Field Maple
7-spot Ladybird. The tiny wasp Dinocampus coccinellae has laid its eggs inside the beetle, eaten it from the inside and also transferred a virus which has paralysed the host. The zombie ladybird has then been compelled to stand over the emerging pupae to protect it- providing food and protection for its parasitic host. More here
April Un-identified
Oak, Plane, Robinia and Poplar now coming to leaf (Previous here)
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