The solitary bee Andrena cineraria is one of our more attractive bees. Solitary bees tend their own batch of eggs which are laid in tunnels in earth banks. These tunnels are often found close together in aggregations, but each female still tends her own eggs.
This specimen was quite dead, and I have no idea why.
A long-term mystery has been solved. I've seen this yellow rust on Bramble many times, but I never got round to a proper identification. It's Kuehneola uredinis, and is very common.
