Entries from January 1, 2013 - January 31, 2013

Tuesday
Jan222013

Blow Fly

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.

Monday
Jan212013

Greenbottle Fly

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.

Sunday
Jan202013

Yarrow

The flowers of of a yarrow plant (Achillea millefolium).

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-07-17.

Saturday
Jan192013

Tephritid Flies

A pair of Tephritis bardanae (Diptera: Tephritidae) mating on burdock (Arctium sp).

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-07-17.

Friday
Jan182013

Rockrose

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.