Click Beetle

From last summer: a click beetle, probably Agrypnus murinus (Coleoptera: Elateridae).

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-07-08.

Blow Fly

A small female bluish-black blow fly, probably a Melinda sp (Diptera: Calliphoridae).

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-07-08.

Bluebottle Flies

A female Calliphora vomitoria (Diptera: Calliphoridae).  The yellow ruff around the neck is a characteristic of this species.

This is a male:

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-08-14 (female) and the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-09-01 (male).

Cluster Fly

From last spring: a female cluster fly, Pollenia sp (Diptera: Calliphoridae).

Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-05-08.

Blow Fly

A female Protocalliphora azurea (Diptera: Calliphoridae).  While the thorax was a greenish black, the abdomen was more of a metallic blue-green:

Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, Uk, on 2012-05-12.