Muscid Fly

A female Musca autumnalis (Diptera: Muscidae).  See here for a male.

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-08-18

Tachinid Fly

A small Tachinid fly, probably a Siphona sp (Diptera: Tachinidae), feeding on common fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica).

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-08-18.

Fungus

Ganoderma applanatum growing at the base of an oak tree (Quercus sp).  The brown dusting is its spores.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-08-18.

Hoverfly

A male Scaeva pyrastri (Diptera: Syrphidae).

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-08-18.

Wasp

A female metallic green wasp, probably a Torymus sp (Hymenoptera: Torymidae), on knapweed (Centaurea sp).

Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-08-18.