This film made by Bootham School, York, is a brief record of the horticulture and insects that inhabit the Strensall nature reserve. Title - Hoverflies. Title - Bootham school natural history club. Title - Summer 1966. The film opens with a close up of a butterfly, before a lengthy sequence shows bee's pollinating different flowers. A shot then shows a sign that reads, 'Strensall nature reserve', in a wooded area. There are then views of different coloured flowers that...

This film made by Bootham School, York, is a brief record of the horticulture and insects that inhabit the Strensall nature reserve. Title - Hoverflies. Title - Bootham school natural history club. Title - Summer 1966. The film opens with a close up of a butterfly, before a lengthy sequence shows bee's pollinating different flowers. A shot then shows a sign that reads, 'Strensall nature reserve', in a wooded area. There are then views of different coloured flowers that populate the reserve and a shot of train rushing past. Trees flap in the wind during a wide shot of a field, after which the film returns to close ups of flowers being pollinated by bees. The film closes spider tending to a bee caught in its web.