Entries from October 1, 2013 - October 31, 2013
Pallopterid Fly
Thu 2013-10-10 
From May last year: a Palloptera quinquemaculata (Diptera: Pallopteridae). I originally had this down as a Lauxaniid fly (Minettia inusta) but the body colour is too yellow and the wing pattern is slightly different.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-05-18.
Muscid Fly
Wed 2013-10-09 
A female Morellia sp (Diptera: Muscidae).
Photos taken above Hutton Village, near Guisborough, North Yorkshire, on 2013-09-12.
Tephritid Fly
Tue 2013-10-08 
A female Tephritis bardanae (Diptera: Tephritidae). October is rather late in the year for this species. All the burdock flower heads in which it might have laid its eggs have long-since turned brown and dried out. Maybe the warm autumn we've been having has caused this individual to hatch out early.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-10-06.
Acorn
Mon 2013-10-07 
An acorn of a turkey oak, Quercus cerris, with its characteristic hairy cup.
The leaves of this tree seemed somewhat elongated:
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-10-05.
