I haven't seen him in our garden since 2022! What a joy to have spotted him today—unfortunately, he wasn't in the mood for a long photo shoot: the chimney sweep, or brown forest moth 😀 Wild carrots are especially popular with small and very small insects right now: Photos 2 and 3 show a plantain moth, which is just 1.5 cm long. Well, its caterpillars certainly won’t go hungry here—ribwort plantain grows in abundance 😂 The masked bee in Photo 4 is just half a centimeter long. In Photo 5, you can even make out a bit of the white “mask” that gives it its name. It’s probably a female; the white markings are much larger on the males. I’ve never been able to identify a masked bee more precisely—it’s not easy to get a good photo of its little face. But this time, observation.org says it’s a horned masked bee. I’ll take their word for it and I’m happy about it 🤗. Photos 6 and 7 show a red soft beetle, and Photo 8 shows a woolly-headed flower beetle. You can see just how small it is when compared to the gold fly in Photo 9. I only spotted it through the macro lens when I was trying to photograph the gold fly.