It was red damsel flies I saw quite a few of at the weekend, which are not a very common sight. Not seen any ladybirds. Something has been eating the aphids on my roses, though I expect it is hoverflies, I think they do more to keep the aphids down than ladybirds. But my cardoon (I grow it as a decorative in the flowerbed) is heavily covered in blackfly now, nothing seems to want to eat them. My daughter got stung by a bumblebee while picking some peas yesterday. There seem to be a lot of bumblebees around now after the dearth earlier in the year.