I collected a small caterpillar from a dog rose on the 2nd June. The moth emerged today - it being a Pandemis corylana moth. This is usually associated with fruit trees.

There were a few new species in the garden today. This Bombus lapidarius bee has been visiting some of the yellow stonecrop flowers in our dry stone walls for a couple of weeks. The marjoram is now flowering and species like this Physocephala rufipes wasp and this Great Banded Grayling butterfly are enjoying it.

I spotted a new macro moth species, a Sub-angled Wave in the upper part of our garden. I only managed to get a phone photo.

This fresh looking Pyrausta aurata moth was enjoying the newly flowering margoram.

And this vapourer caterpillar was munching through a melissa leaf.

This weird looking caddis fly, Mystacides azurea, was rushing around a leaf. It looks like it has two pairs of antennae, but the black ones are palps.

On one of my garden surveys, I found a new moth for the garden, Olethreutes arcuella.

We also had a Great Banded Grayling gliding around our heads. When the sun went in, he landed on the shed roof.