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Fri 20th February 2009 13:21 by Ben Sale
The Mothing year is well and truly underway
Had some good catches this last week as temperatures rise nicely.
Just seen an unidentified bumblebee in the gardens here at Abbotts Hall Farm near Great Wigborough, plus several honeybees on an early-flowering Viburnum.