Conopid Fly
Mon 2015-05-25 A Conops vesicularis (Diptera: Conopidae). The larvae are parasites of bees while the adults, judging from their yellow-brown colour, are hornet mimics.
Specimen taken at Balmer Lawn, Brockenhurst, UK, on 2015-05-16.
Mon 2015-05-25 A Conops vesicularis (Diptera: Conopidae). The larvae are parasites of bees while the adults, judging from their yellow-brown colour, are hornet mimics.
Specimen taken at Balmer Lawn, Brockenhurst, UK, on 2015-05-16.
Thu 2015-05-21 New forest ponies (Equus ferus caballus).
Photo taken on Balmer Lawn, Brockenhurst, UK, on 2015-05-16.
Fri 2015-05-08 A male Adela reaumurella (Lepidoptera: Adelidae).
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2015-05-03.
Fri 2015-05-01 A male Urophora cardui (Diptera: Tephritidae) that emerged on 2015-04-27 from the following thistle galls that I had collected in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2015-03-22:
Sat 2015-04-18 What I think is a male Leucophora sp (Diptera: Anthomyiidae).
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2015-04-11.