Bracket Fungus

What I think is a dark variant of Trametes versicolor (= Coriolis versicolor) growing on a branch fallen from a broad-leaf tree.

The upper surface is mostly black but with a white rim:

The lower surface is all white and shows about 4 pores per millimetre:

Under the microscope (x600, image width 86um) the spores are about 4.5 x 1.5um:

This is at the lower end of the size range of 4.5-6.5 x 1.5-2.5um given on this page at Mycobank.

The first photo and the sample were taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-01-11

Beetles

A pair of green dock beetles, Gastrophysa viridula (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), mating on a dock leaf (Rumex sp).

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2010-09-04.

Hybotid Fly

From late last spring: a tiny fly with distinctive front legs, probably a Tachypeza sp, possibly Tachypeza nubila (Diptera: Hybotidae).

Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-05-27.

Moth

From last summer: a small tortrix moth, probably an Epinotia sp, possibly Epinotia ramella (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae).

Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-08-10.

Hoverfly

From last autumn: a female Eristalis pertinax (Diptera: Syrphidae).  An "entirely orange front tarsus" and "the hind tibia is pale in the basal half" (quotes from British Hoverflies, Stubbs and Falk, 2002, page 292).

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-10-30.