The weather has been so cold and miserable that I was surprised to see an insect at all, but this one had the right idea and was sheltering in the greenhouse. It is a solitary wasp of some kind, and lays its eggs in a hole in a tree or a wall or in the ground, leaving food such as caterpillars for its larvae to eat. There are several thousand species of wasp in this country and many of them look a bit like this, small and black and yellow. I haven't tried to work out which species this is, as it is often impossible, but its name doesn't really matter much. Up close it is a marvellous little beast.
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