Hornet mimic

Suffering from a stomach bug today, so had to delegate the remaining cake-making to Ben and Lizzy. I may only be supervising tomorrow's cooking activities too - such a pain. 

I managed to sneak into the garden briefly in the early evening where I found the wonderful hornet-mimicking hoverfly Volucella inanis feeding on the marjoram. This was previously found mainly around London, but it has been steadily expanding its range northwards and now reaches a line from the Wash to the Severn, although even in this area it is quite local, and infrequent much of the time. It's a regular late-summer species in the garden and in other flowery sites round Peterborough.