Obviously, you can never have too many damselflies or scorpion flies. I saw three hares today – at distance and some pace – but they’re still around. The snipe flies (“rests head down on tree trunks” clinched it for me) were quite photogenic. My first lace wing, my best froghopper yet and, sporting stripy antennae, a long horned beetle – an Agapanthea villosoviridescens, no less (except that my Collins guide says it’s rare, so it probably isn’t. But then again, “breeds in stems of thistles” gives it a shout). I’ve no idea what the caterpillar is – a tussock moth of some sort?
