Hoverfly

From last summer: a female Chrysotoxum bicinctum (Diptera: Syrphidae).

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-06-29.

Tephritid Flies

From last year: two male Tephritis neesii (Diptera: Tephritidae) competing for an ox-eye daisy plant (Leucanthemum vulgare).  They were flashing their patterned wings at each other.

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-05-18.

Shieldbugs

From a couple of years ago: a pair of Dolycoris baccarum (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) mating on a nettle (Urtica dioica).

Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-05-13.

Snake's Head Fritillary

Flowers of snake's head fritillary, Fritillaria meleagris.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-03-15.

Snake

A sidewinder, Crotalus cerastes.

Photo taken in London Zoo on 2008-03-15.