Saturday
Sep222012
Tachinid Fly
Sat 2012-09-22 
A small hairy fly, probably Voria ruralis (Diptera: Tachinidae).
Photo taken Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-09-18.
Entries by Tristram Brelstaff (3026)
Sat 2012-09-22 Friday
Sep212012
Sawflies
Fri 2012-09-21 
A pair of figwort sawflies, Tenthredo scrophulariae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae), mating.
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-08-20.
Thursday
Sep202012
Fungus
Thu 2012-09-20 
A fungus growing on a blackberry leaf (Rubus sp).
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-09-15.
Wednesday
Sep192012
Moth
Wed 2012-09-19 
A moth that came through my bedroom window one night in late August: probably a Xestia xanthographa (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).
Photo taken in Reading, UK, on 2012-08-24.
Tuesday
Sep182012
Shieldbugs
Tue 2012-09-18 
An adult shieldbug, probably Eurygaster testudinaria (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae). Another possibility would be Eurygaster maura which is very similar but rarer.
And this appears to be a final instar nymph of the same species.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-09-06 and 2012-09-14, respectively.
