Beginning to buzz ..
A warm day for our NGS afternoon for the National Trust volunteers.
A common carder bee was working the plates of the inula magnifica flower heads.
And, at last, invertebrates were active!
An early bumblebee worker was busy on the Crocosmia 'Lucifer'.
And an impressive nursery-web spider sat on guard her canopied web, waiting for visitors among the same stand of inula magnifica ...