Fri 2014-05-16 
One of several Chaetorellia jaceae (Diptera: Tephritidae) that I came across on hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium). This is not this species' normal host plant which is knapweed (Centaurea sp), but there were plenty of knapweed plants nearby.
I took one fly as a specimen and later identified it using the key of White (in Tephritid Flies, 1993).
Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK on 2014-05-05.
Thu 2014-05-15 
From last summer: a pair of Chrysogaster sp, probably Chrysogaster solstitialis (Diptera: Syrphidae), male at the top, female at the bottom.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-08-18.
Wed 2014-05-14 
A leaf from a lime tree (Tilia sp) with pale spots. The above photo shows that upper surface of the leaf, below is the lower surface:
Under the microscope the pale parts are revealed to be masses of fungal hyphae:
I have not (yet) been able to identify the fungus.
Specimen in first 2 photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-05-03, that in the 3rd photo taken in the same place on 2014-05-12.
Tue 2014-05-13 
What I think is a male Blepharipa schineri (Diptera: Tachinidae). Identified using Chris Raper's and Matt Smith's revision 5c of Belshaw's 1993 Key which was distributed for their Tachinid Workshop in February 2014. I include a few more photos as evidence for this identification.
Details of the face:
The hind tibia has a Sturmia bella-like comb of anterodorsal bristles:
The middle tibia has 3 anterodorsal bristles (Sturmia bella has only 1 or 2):
Tergites 1+2, 3 have no median marginal bristles (in Blepharipa pratensis they do):
Specimen taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-05-09.
Mon 2014-05-12 
Tephritis hyoscyami (Diptera: Tephritidae). This species is associated with thistles of Carduus sp.
Specimen taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2014-05-04.
