Tue 2013-01-22 
A female Protocalliphora azurea (Diptera: Calliphoridae). While the thorax was a greenish black, the abdomen was more of a metallic blue-green:
Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, Uk, on 2012-05-12.
Mon 2013-01-21 
A greeenbottle fly from last October: a male Lucilia sp (Diptera: Calliphoridae).
Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-10-09.
Sun 2013-01-20 
The flowers of of a yarrow plant (Achillea millefolium).
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-07-17.
Sat 2013-01-19 
A pair of Tephritis bardanae (Diptera: Tephritidae) mating on burdock (Arctium sp).
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-07-17.
Fri 2013-01-18 
Common rockrose, Helianthemum nummularium.
The leaves are covered in small hairs:
Photos taken in the field to the west of Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-08-12.
