Note: House Circuit posts are drawn from the many 50 metre walks I make every day around our house.
Garden delights continue. Today on one of my circuits I met this splendid insect, a fine female hornet hoverfly, Volucella zonaria, sipping the nectar from a hogweed umbel. A hundred years ago it was a great rarity, but now seems well-established in the southern parts of England and Wales.
These splendid creatures breed in wasps and hornets nest and we have had the females come searching about indoors when their hosts are nesting in the attic, as they often do along with the tree bees..
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