Shieldbugs

A pair of green shieldbugs, Palomena pransina (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) mating.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-06-02.

Tephritid Fly

Tephritis bardanae (Diptera: Tephritidae), my first of the year.  It was on a budock plant (Arctium sp) that was growing on the dam between the middle and lower lakes.  The burdock leaves are already quite large but the flower heads have not started to come out yet.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-06-02.

Sciomyzid Fly

A Sciomyzid fly, probably a Tetanocera sp (Diptera: Sciomyzidae).

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-06-02.

Guelder Rose

Flowers of the guelder rose bush, Viburnum opulus. The large outer flowers are actually sterile and the smaller inner flowers were not yet open when this picture was taken.

The leaves are rather maple-like:

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-06-01

Tachinid Fly

From last summer: a Tachinid fly that I found dead on a flower.  Identified as Eurithia anthophila (Diptera: Tachinidae) by Chris Raper and Erikas 'neprisikiski' here at Diptera.info.

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-08-12.