Treehopper

A treehopper with horns: Centrotus cornutus (Hemiptera: Membracidae).

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2011-06-14.

Orange Fly

An orange fly with distinctive wing markings: probably a male Minettia inusta (Diptera: Lauxaniidae) a female Palloptera quinquemaculata (Diptera: Pallopteridae).  Identified using the draft key of Stubbs, 1994.

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-05-30.

Moth

One evening a week ago this moth came in through our open living room window.  It is a wave moth of genus Idaea, possibly the remutata (plain) form of the riband wave moth Idaea aversata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). There is also a banded form of this species.

Photo taken in Reading, UK, on 2011-07-10.

Hoverfly

A black variant of the hoverfly Merodon equestris (Diptera: Syrphidae).

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-06-04.

Tachinid Fly

Tachinid fly Nowickia ferox (Diptera: Tachinidae), similar to the more common Tachina fera but with black legs and black antennae.

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-07-11.