Tue 2012-02-14 
From late summer two years ago: Tachinid fly Tachina fera (Diptera: Tachinidae). This individual must have been particularly docile to have come onto my finger. Normally they fly off well before I get this close.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-08-22.
Mon 2012-02-13
A female hoverfly, Dasysyrphus albostriatus (Diptera: Syrphidae) on a knapweed flower (Centaurea sp).
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-08-22.
Sun 2012-02-12 
A white cup fungus, probably a Peziza sp, growing on a decaying log.
Note the short stalk on the cup to the right in the following photo:
Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-08-17.
Sat 2012-02-11 
A grass flower-head covered in small white eggs, possibly those of a moth.
Close-up you can see that each egg has a pattern on its surface:
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-08-22.
Fri 2012-02-10 
A multi-layered bracket fungus, probably Ganoderma applanatum, growing on the trunk of a living broken trunk of a dead broad-leaf tree. This is what the underside looks like:
Photos taken at the west end of the Warren, Caversham, UK, on 2012-01-27.
