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Just outside my window in the back garden, is a beautiful shrub of the Rosacea family. I don't know it's name.
In the winter the weeping nature of the lilacy-silver stems provide lovely colour. In the spring and summer, the acid yellowy-green leaves are bright beyond belief.

Right now it is covered in minute pink florets that have a heady perfume and are a Mecca for insects. I've been compiling a photographic inventory of visitors which includes several species of bumble bee, bee, wasp and fly.

Today my friendly kitchen visitor the hornet, was on the look out for something rather more tasty than nectar.

If you dare to look large, you'll see she is hanging upside down on a floret by one leg and munching on the thorax of a fat fly. At the very bottom of the image you can see the wings, an a couple of legs, discarded on another floret.

Munch, munch, munch, then she buzzzzed off in search of pudding.