Hastings Country Park

Can't resist them....

This little bee was acting really odd. It was walking around on blades of grass quite docile and then latched itself onto this blade you see by locking on with its jaws. We thought it had been parasitized because it was not letting go for anything and then folded its legs up. I took some photos with the blade bent over a leaf cause the wind was swinging it all over. I wasn't going to post these, just was going to get an ID. While looking around for the ID, I came across someones photo and one of the comments on it was 'lucky you, wish I could find one with locked jaw', so this got me thinking...why would you want to do that, what is this behavior. So beginning my top notch detective work with a google search of 'Nomada locked jaw', I was rewarded with results that told me this bee is trying to sleep. I found this very interesting, and had never heard of such, maybe lots of insects do similar but we had never seen it. I was unable to get an exact ID also, Bwars didn't have an exact match, so if anyone has an idea on that too, I'd appreciate it.

Bricks in the wall.

Nice little moths that we often see sitting around looking like bird poo on leaves :D

I have no idea, in the middle of the country park.

Very cooperative :)

Always a pleasure, was our first of the year. Taken 27 May.

I love the smell of the wild garlic in the sping, it makes me hungry. My other half however hates garlic (he maybe a vampire, but I've yet to prove it), I usually bring some home to use to cook with, the leaves work great in foods.

Dayglo insides with the sun dropping :)

Hard to resist

We had a beetley day at Hastings Country Park, this is yet another first for us :D

One of my favorite flowers growing wild on the Hastings cliffs.

Growing along the cliff top.