I remember as a child the middle of Lyme Bay three miles out covered in ladybirds in '76. This year nocturnal moths seem plentiful as I encounter them in large numbers when I go somewhere in the dark. I must try to see if the glow worm field is showing signs of life this year but it's a hike. Sea weed flies in number and must be a feast for birds that thrive there.
Otherwise daytime insects are rare, hoverflies almost non existent, butterflies a couple of large whites and a comma in the garden yesterday.
Honey bees? A few but more Bumbles though I don't know the species, love the marjoram flowering now and blue agapanthus earlier. The poached egg plants specially sown for the hoverflies and others have withered and produced a miniscule amount of flowers this year.
It's a 2/10 gardening year and 10/10 useable summer weather and even if we see a change next week I won't change that.
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft