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Dorset 4.

1st June.  Early AM.  Sandpit by roadside on way to Ilsington & Boswell's Wood ? = Duddle Heath

Sphex hirsuta ♀︎. 
Pompilus "viaticus". 
P. parvulus ♂︎
Oxybelus uniglumis  ♂︎.
Sphecodes gibbus & divisus  2♀︎♀︎ each.
Nomada germanica (carrying larvae of Medöe)


2nd June.  I. of Portland from The Bill along W. cliffs back to "mainland".

Andrena carbonaria  ♀︎♀︎ (large colony at N. tip of The Bill a few feet above sea level, but no Nomada seen here!
A. flavipes  3♂︎♂︎ with last.
A. spreta  ♀︎.
Halictus albipes.
H. villosulus  2♀︎♀︎.
H. smeathmanellus vera!  2♀︎♀︎.
Osmia auralenta common.
Sphecodes cf. puncticeps  1♀︎ (with Graham).
Odynerus pictus  ♂︎.
Chrysis ignita  ♂︎.
Leptothorax tuberum.
Lasius cf. alienus?  ☿☿.


3rd June  Hod Hill, near Blandford.

Bombus lapidarius & Psithyrus rupestris  ♀︎♀︎ seen.
Andrena wilkella  ♀︎♀︎.
Nomada goodeniana  ♀︎.