Round, fluffy ball of bee-fly seen head-on - wings outstretched, transparent at the rear and with a dark brown-black fringe at front, a visor of brown-red compound eyes encircling the head (meeting at the middle, indicating a male), a long, dark, straight proboscis, and spindly long legs down to a large, rough green leaf covered in tiny white hairs.
Large yellow-and-black stripy wasp on a glossy green leaf in the sun.
Rotund blob of bumblebee, roughly the size of a golden retriever - glossy black hairs with two bands of orange-yellow - on the back of a dead leaf in the sun, surrounded by vivid green blades of grass, preening its face with an outstretched leg like a cat.
Tiny, slender glossy-black wasp, long antennae, wings folded, translucent silver in the sun with two dark patches - on the bluntly serrated edge of a smooth yellow-green leaf.
More arbitrarily selected bugs from today:
Bombylius major, bee-fly
Vespula sp., wasp (queen)
Bombus terrestris, bumblebee (queen!)
Tiny wasp from the Ichneumonoidea?
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