Tachinid Fly

Eurithia consobrina (Diptera: Tachinidae).  Identified using the key of Belshaw, 1993.

Specimen taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-08-17.

Fleabane

Common fleabane, Pulicaria dystenterica.

The leaves look like this:

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-08-17.

Bristly Ox-Tongue

A flower of bristly ox-tongue, Helminthotheca echiodes = Picris echiodes.

The unopened flowers have red as welll as yellow:

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-08-17.

Tachinid Fly

From back in spring time: an Ocytata pallipes (Diptera: Tachinidae).

In this species, the median vein (usually) fails to reach the wing margin:

A few close-ups of the head:

Specimen taken in the field below Chazey Wood, Near Caversham, UK, on 2014-05-25.

Tachinid Fly

A member of the Exorista rustica species group (Diptera: Tachinidae) feeding on wild carrot (Daucus carota).  These are very common at he moment, indeed today I saw more of these than I did of Eriothrix rufomaculata.

Note the long lines of bristles that runs down each side of the yellowish face.

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-08-17.