Of Holly Blue Butterflies and Ginger-Bonce Bees

Since mid-2017 we have been working in the Garden (at Home) with a view to attracting Bees, Butterflies, Hoverflies &c. We have introduced a number of new Plants including Wild Flowers such as Bird's-Foot Trefoil and Kidney Vetch.

There is a long way to go but during the past month or so it has been almost impossible not to see Holly Blue Butterflies viz.

We also regularly see Speckled Wood Butterflies and hopefully later in the year other Butterflies such as Gatekeepers and Meadow Browns will make regular appearances.

We know very little about Bees &c. but today we noticed a Ginger-Bonce Bee visiting the Kidney Vetch viz.

We understand our new Acquaintance to be a Brown-Banded Carder Bee. We understand that the Brown-Banded Carder Bee is the scarcest of the Ginger Carder Bees: but how scarce we don't know. Scarce or otherwise however, it is an attractive looking Bee.