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| This month's images - May 2021 |
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 A Large Red Damselfly, Alwins Field, 10 May 2021. This had not long emerged; its wings are not fully hardened and its first flight to this resting point was weak. |
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 A female Holly Blue butterfly in our garden, Alwins Field, 7 May 2021. |
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 A Large Red Damselfly emerging from our garden pond, Alwins Field, 7 May 2021. The adult damselfly is seen here bursting out of its larval skin on a rock at the edge of the pond. Its wings are tiny but they will be pumped up to full size and be fairly rigid before it flies away. |
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 A Micromoth (Incurvaria masculella) on a window, Alwins Field, 7 May 2021. This is a male with "pectinate" antennae - they look like combs and are designed to sniff out females. |
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 A female Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva), Alwins Field, 7 May 2021. |
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 A Honey bee in our garden, Alwins Field, feeding on Forget-me-nots, 5 May 2021. |
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 A typical native Bluebell, Linslade Woods, 2 May 2021. These are not the same as the scent-less Spanish Bluebells that are sold at garden centres. |
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 A carpet of Bluebells, Linslade Woods, 2 May 2021. |
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 A female Grey-patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida) in Linslade Woods, 2 May 2021. |
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