Fri 2020-01-31 
The startling yellow-orange face and white frons of a male Schoenomyza litorella (Diptera: Muscidae). In the females the face is a pale yellow.
Identified using the key of Fonseca, 1968.
Specimen taken in Thames Valley Park, Reading, UK on 2019-04-21.
Sun 2020-01-26 
A toothed crust fungus, probably Steccherinum ochraceum, growing on a fallen birch twig.
Specimen collected in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK on 2020-01-25.
Sat 2020-01-04 
A gall wasp of species Diastrophus rubi (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) which today (2020-01-04) emerged from the bramble gall that I collected in Thames Valley Park on 2019-08-26 (see here for a picture of the gall).
Identification based on the gall key of Redfern and Shirley, 2011.
