A little sunshine....

Have you noticed just how many bees there are about this year? Few honey bees locally, I admit, but that may just be because our neighbourly apiarist moved house some years back, but bumble bees aplenty in the garden. I was given an identifying card of common types, from our local museum but either we have uncommon varieties or I am just useless at spotting the differences. Enter the point-and-press. This was the first attempt....

and the second.........

...... no, it's not you, I can not see it, either.  I not only lack an apiarist's skills but photographic ones, too.
So I picked something a little slower. This may be a lily beetle (although there are no lilies in the garden since vine weevil moved in and ate the bulbs).

A combination of pond and dapples shade (magnolia with plans of world domination) encourages many different hover fly (perhaps there is a reference book somewhere...).
This is one of the many....

Then I got distracted by the wonder of Nature .... isn't this the most perfect flower?

(Broad bean, if you did not recognise it).

Spring is synonymous with new life and this sight rarely lasts more than a day......
           

And I finally took a picture of a bee.
It may have been tired, or sleeping, or......

                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                      
.... or maybe on its last legs, but there was time for three goes to get its good side.
At this time, it is still unidentified.....