Blowfly

A female blowfly, probably a Melinda sp (Diptera: Calliphoridae).

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-04-21.

Blowfly

A female Pollenia sp (Diptera: Calliphoridae).

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-04-14.

Blowfly

Cynomya mortuorum (Diptera: Calliphoridae).

Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-09-09.

Blowflies

A pair of Lucilia sp (Diptera: Calliphoridae), female to the left, male to the right. [Note added 2015-07-12: the combination of pale basicosta, 3 postsutural acrostichial setae, and a broadish gap between the eyes of the male taken together suggest that these are Lucilia sericata.]

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK,  on 2013-06-30.

Anenome

A wood anenome, Anemone nemorosa.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2015-03-28.