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Great planting from the NSC boys. I'll show the wife the three poster's shots above, she'll be impressed.

Is there anything I can do to get rid off this nasty, ugly bug on my bush?

The girls who gave us ours says it does. We have yet to try.

Given it last autumn and left out through the wet winter.

I’ll go along with that. We’ve got it but had forgotten the name.

Talking of Monty; RIP Nigel.

We bought one in 1995 and kept it in a pot for 25 years. It hardly grew at all but was happy. 25 years we smashed it out the pot. Wasn’t too root bound. Planted at allotment and it’s taken off to give bushy shade to our seating area. 4m high and 4m circumference despite extreme pruning measures.

Could it be one of the 3 rarer bombylius here? https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/bee-flies/