Monday
Sep092013
Muscid Fly
Mon 2013-09-09 
A female Phaonia valida (Diptera: Muscidae). See here for a male from last month.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-09-07.
Entries by Tristram Brelstaff (3025)
Mon 2013-09-09 Sunday
Sep082013
Mugwort
Sun 2013-09-08 
What I think is mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris. It can grow up to head-height.
The main stem is reddish and the leaves are thin and pointed:
The seed head look like this:
Photos taken in Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2013-08-11.
Saturday
Sep072013
Moth
Sat 2013-09-07 
Another small moth, this time probably the leaf miner Gracillaria syringella = Caloptilia syringella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae).
Photo taken in in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2013-09-05.
Friday
Sep062013
Anthomyiid Fly
Fri 2013-09-06 
A female Hydrophoria linogrisea (Diptera: Anthomyiidae). Identification by Stephane Lebrun here at Diptera.info.
Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-08-26.
Thursday
Sep052013
Hawthorn
Thu 2013-09-05 
From back in late spring: flowers of hawthorn (Crataegus sp).
The leaves look like this:
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-05-25.
