At the time it was hard to tell who would win the staring contest. In the end it was the Common Emerald moth.
The Small Tortoiseshell is a more frequent visitor though this one may need to find a larger Nettle to lay it's eggs on.
After some research I found that this slug found hiding under a rubble sack is actually a good old black slug. More correctly it is a colour variant of Arion ater.
With all the flowers thers seems to me to have been a lot of bumble bees this year, at any rate their numbers on the plot seem tho have been rising since I took it on. Bee identification seems to be not as simple as I first thought ... The one at the top on the Lavender seems to be a Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) and the one in the lower pic on the Origano could be either a Small or a Large Earth Humble -bee (Bombus terrestris / lucorum). Ill take corrections on these.
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