Butterfly
A small tortoise butterfly, Aglais urticae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2014-04-21.
A small tortoise butterfly, Aglais urticae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2014-04-21.
Small dark hoverfly Neoascia podagrica (Diptera: Syrphidae). Identified using the key of Stubbs and Falk (British Hoverflies, 2002).
Specimen taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2014-04-13.
A miner bee, probably Andrena nitida (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae).
Photos taken Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-04-05.
A carpet moth, probably Epirrhoe alternata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Whenever it settled it folded its wings up like this, which made it rather awkward to identify.
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2014-04-21.
A flower of yellow archangel, Lamium galeobdolon.
And this is the full plant:
Photos taken in Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2014-04-21.