Sat 2013-05-11 
Blue leaf beetles, probably an Altica sp (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) on a willow herb (Epilobium sp).
Photo taken on the dam at the lower end of the large lake, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-05-06.
Fri 2013-05-10 
A male Empis sp, probably Empis trigramma (Diptera: Empipidae).
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-05-06.
Thu 2013-05-09 
A Nematogopon sp (Lepidoptera: Adelidae). Not my first longhorn moth of the year, that was a male Adela reaumurella I saw two days earlier. but the first I managed to photograph.
Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-05-06.
Wed 2013-05-08 
My first Tephritid flies of the year: two male Tephritis neesii (Diptera: Tephritidae) competing for dominance of an ox-eye daisy plant (Leucanthemum vulgare). The females lay their eggs in the developing ox-eye daisy flower heads. Presumably the males that dominate the best flower heads get to mate with the best females.
It seems that the cold spring has not prevented a repeat of the T. neesii plague that occurred last year. I saw hundreds of these flies on my walk round the lakes on Monday; there must have been around 3 or 4 on every ox-eye daisy plant that I looked at.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-05-06.
Tue 2013-05-07 
A glossy black female Muscid fly, probably Hydrotaea diabolus (Diptera: Muscidae).
Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2013-05-05.
