Yeah, it’s a tough life looking after the natural talent Apprentices. I spent a few days on Islay with Cathy Fiedler, our Apprentice Hymenopterist who was working at RSPB Loch Gruinart, looking for a little mining bee called the Northern Mining bee. Or Colletes floralis as if you didn’t already know.
It was really good fun and the weather wasn’t too shabby either. In fact it’s all the sun I saw this year!!
If you look really closely you can see the plaster on her left thumb that prevented the little bleeder stinging Cathy!
No animals were hurt in the making of the picture!!
