A Migrant Hawker Dragonfly that posed nicely for me.
A Green Bottle that I'm pleased with.
A couple of spiders.
A Buff-Tailed Bumblebee (could be a white tailed but this seems to have a bit of colour on the tail)
One evening I spotted loads of caterpillars on a young hornbeam. I identified them as Buff-tip moths. They stick together eating a leaf at a time until they are in the latest instar stage and then all split up. I counted about 50 and wondered how much damage they would do - as it happened quite a lot, but the tree still has a few leaves and buds getting ready for next year. The caterpillars have gone, some were spotted around the garden. They pupate over winter in the soil.
Here's a couple I caught shedding their skins. The hairs are probably irritating.
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