Wed 2013-07-17 
Over the past few years I have often noticed these dusty yellowish-black weevils on the flower heads of spear thistles (Cirsium vulgare). They are probably Rhinocyllus conicus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-07-07.
Tue 2013-07-16 
A small yellow fly that seemed to prefer my sweaty fingers to the leaf that I found it on. Probably a Meromyza sp (Diptera: Chloropidae).
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-07-13.
Mon 2013-07-15 
A tiny moth only about 2mm long, that I came across on a burdock leaf (Arctium sp). Probably a Stigmella sp, possibly Stigmella aurella (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae), but there are many other similar species in this genus. They are leaf-miners.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-07-13.
Sun 2013-07-14 
A female Terellia tussilaginis (Diptera: Tephritidae) on burdock (Arctium sp). In the first half of the summer the main Tephritid fly on burdock is Tephritis bardanae but later in the summer Terellia tussilaginis takes over.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK on 2013-07-13.
Sat 2013-07-13 
An Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) with one of two goslings that it was looking after.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-07-07.
