It rained all day yesterday and the temperature plummeted below 10C, so the insects were out with the sun this morning, a female Common Darter surveying the scene from the top of the bay tree.
Just below her a ladybird scurried around minding her own business, which is what ladybirds do unless they're diverted, while nearby....
....one of many hover flies was sunning itself on a leaf.
Below the bay the broad leaves of the rhubarb are a fine place for another hover fly to sit and catch the sun, this one seeming to be mostly eyes, where it was joined by....
....a small and very pretty grasshopper.
Next to the rhubarb the flowers of a late toadflax draw the pollinators, like this little bumblebee. Below him....
....a crane fly, all legs, had become rather entangled in the toadflax's seed pods.
No autumn insect assemblage is complete without the arrival of one of the wasp army, busying about its business and getting in the way of everyone else's.
So many insects on a warm autumn morning, and so many potential breakfasts for the garden's patient spiders.
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