Sat 2018-11-03 
A gall of the fly Hartigiola annulipes (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on a leaf of a beech tree (Fagus sp).
Identified using the key of Redfern and Shirley, British Plant Galls, 2011.
Specimen collected in The Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK on 2018-11-03.
Sun 2018-10-28 
A male Emmesomyia socia (Diptera:Anthomyiidae). Identified using the 2017 draft keys of Michael Ackland.
A close-up of the gentialia:
And a posterior view of the same:
Specimen take in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK on 2018-06-30.
Wed 2018-09-26 
A male Sarcophaga anaces (Diptera: Sarcophagidae).
This is a species that is not included in The Sarcophagidae of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Pape, 1987 but is in Sarcophaga of France (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Richet et al, 2011. Another such species is Sarcophaga dissimilis.
The male genitalia of S. anaces are quite distinctive:
One of four specimens taken between Kennet Mouth and Thames Valley Park, Reading, UK on 2018-09-25.
Sun 2018-09-23 
A female Phaonia rufipalpis (Diptera: Muscidae). Identified using the key of Fonseca, 1968.
Specimen caught in Chazey Wood near Caversham, UK on 2018-09-10.
Wed 2018-08-29 
A female beewolf, Philanthus triangulum (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). On first seeing it I assumed it was a rather docile common wasp but on closer inspection it seemed more like a small hornet with the brownish patches on the sides of the head and the bright yellow face:
Far from being docile, beewolfs actually hunt down and kill honey bees.
Specimen taken between Kennet Mouth and Thames Valley Park, Reading on 2018-08-25.
