gatekeeper – allotment bristol -wax crayon – c. A3

Female gatekeeper, forewings a sea of orange.

honeybee on scabious – allotment bristol -wax crayon – c. A3

Honeybees with troubador hindlegs (something of them expanding to a wide flattened boot) .  Sinking their small heart shaped faces into pillows of marshmallow scabious.

honey bee on scabious & ragwort – allotment bristol – wax crayon – c. A3

Need more work and more exagerration to find the form and feel of the red-tails… quick moving buzz, fuzz of blackness.

red-tailed bumblebee on small scabious – allotment bristol – wax crayon – c. A4

Finding two new species for the meadow… a single roesel’s bush cricket… last seen/sketched in Turkey.  Given more scrutiny of the skippers I realised that some of them are essex skippers with the dipped in ink undersides to antennae… So three species of skipper on this little scrap of land.