Friday
Jan112013

Bugle

What I think is bugle, Ajuga reptans.

Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-04-24.

Thursday
Jan102013

Grass

From last Spring, a grass with yellow and brown flowers: probably a Bromus sp, possibly Bromus hordeaceus. (=Bromus mollis).

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-05-30.

Wednesday
Jan092013

Ground Ivy

What I think is ground ivy, Glechoma hederacea.

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK on 2010-04-23 (first), and in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-04-13 (second).

Tuesday
Jan082013

Tephritid Fly versus Muscid Fly

A male Tephritis neesii (right, Diptera: Tephritidae) flashing its wings at a female Coenosia tigrina (left, Diptera: Muscidae), rather foolhardy given C. tigrina's habit of preying upon other flies.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-05-06.

Monday
Jan072013

Muscid Fly

From back in mid-summer,  a muscid fly with a yellow scutellum and yellow wing-bases: probably a female Mydaea corni (Diptera: Muscidae).

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-06-24.