Beginning to buzz ..

A warm day for our NGS afternoon for the National Trust volunteers.

And, at last, invertebrates were active!

An early bumblebee worker was busy on the Crocosmia 'Lucifer'.

A common carder bee was working the plates of the inula magnifica flower heads.

And an impressive nursery-web spider sat on guard her canopied web, waiting for visitors among the same stand of inula magnifica ...