Mon 2012-07-30 
A female wasp-mimic soldier fly, probably Stratiomys potamida (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). This was only a few metres from where I saw my first one last year.
Photo taken on the dam at the lower end of the large lake in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-07-28.
Sun 2012-07-29 
A pair of Minettia longipennis (Diptera: Lauxaniidae) mating.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-07-01.
Sat 2012-07-28 
A black and white bee, probably Andrena cineraria (Hymemoptera: Andrenidae).
Photos taken Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-06-18.
Fri 2012-07-27 
Probably Aplomya confinis (Diptera: Tachinidae). Identification by Chris Raper and Theo Zeegers here at Diptera.info.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-07-17.
Thu 2012-07-26 
A male hoverfly, probably Xylota sylvarum (Diptera: Syrphidae). Similar to but not as common as Xylota segnis.
The distal half of the hind tibia is normally dark in X. sylvarum but, as Stubbs and Falk point out on page 335 of British Hoverflies, this darkening is only visible from certain angles.
Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-07-24.
