Another one for my "bad wildlife photo" collection. This hairy shield bug was preparing for takeoff.
iNaturalist entry (with a proper photo!) is here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/402226732
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When you go looking in your garden, *really* looking, you find all sorts of weird wildlife... this was, thankfully, very tiny (shot with a Canon 500D close-up filter).
iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/402815294
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Yes, another ivy bee.. and not even on a flower!
I didn't know these existed until a couple of months ago, and they've only been in the UK 25 years. But there's plenty around locally at the moment and they're rapidly becoming my favourite bee.
You can't really tell the size from this photo, but they're slightly smaller than a honey bee, I've seen them getting chased off the ivy flowers if there's honey bees around.
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