Thu 2013-05-09 
A Nematogopon sp (Lepidoptera: Adelidae). Not my first longhorn moth of the year, that was a male Adela reaumurella I saw two days earlier. but the first I managed to photograph.
Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-05-06.
Wed 2013-05-08 
My first Tephritid flies of the year: two male Tephritis neesii (Diptera: Tephritidae) competing for dominance of an ox-eye daisy plant (Leucanthemum vulgare). The females lay their eggs in the developing ox-eye daisy flower heads. Presumably the males that dominate the best flower heads get to mate with the best females.
It seems that the cold spring has not prevented a repeat of the T. neesii plague that occurred last year. I saw hundreds of these flies on my walk round the lakes on Monday; there must have been around 3 or 4 on every ox-eye daisy plant that I looked at.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-05-06.
Tue 2013-05-07 
A glossy black female Muscid fly, probably Hydrotaea diabolus (Diptera: Muscidae).
Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2013-05-05.
Mon 2013-05-06 
A mining bee, probably a female Andrena haemorrhoa (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Distinguished from other mining bees with reddish-brown hairs on the thorax and bald black abdomens (Andrena bicolor, Andrena nitida and Andrena thoracica) by the yellow tip to the abdomen.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK on 2013-05-04.
Sun 2013-05-05 
A Dolichopodid fly with large antennae: probably a male Rhaphium sp (Diptera: Dolichopodidae).
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-04-28.
