Bugs in the garden

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There are a lot of hoverflies.

These were on the ?sage.

I think it's got the remains of a hoverfly:

This one really is near-white to the eye rather than yellow, it's not an artefact of the camera:

I have fairly regular bee visits too:

This is actually quite a noisy activity - clearly audible from a 2-3m away:

The ants were pretty challenging to photograph:

…having got the MP-E 65 out for the ants I returned to the hoverflies, one of which was pretty cooperative: