Beetle
Ground beetle Harpalus rufipes (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Distinguished by its orange antennae and legs, and by the fine yellow hairs on its wing-cases:
Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-06-09.
Ground beetle Harpalus rufipes (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Distinguished by its orange antennae and legs, and by the fine yellow hairs on its wing-cases:
Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-06-09.
A black and white sawfly, probably Pachyprotasis rapae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae). This is the second one of these I have seen. The first was a few days earlier, see here.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2012-05-06.
Hoverfly, Merodon equestris (Diptera: Syrphidae), a bumble bee mimic.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-06-06.
Male longhorn moths of species Nemophora degeerella (Lepidoptera: Adelidae).
The females have much shorted antennae:
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-06-06
Tephritid fly Tephritis bardanae (Diptera: Tephritidae) on burdock (Arctium sp). This is the first of this species I have seen this year. The burdock flower heads are just beginning to come out.
The wing patterns are similar to, but subtly different from, those for Tephritis hyoscyami, but the latter tend to be found on thistles rather than on burdock.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2012-06-04.