Four-banded Flower Bee (Anthophora quadrimaculata)












Bare-saddled (Colletes)

The females have a bare first tergite and this can be seen in the images above.

The hind tarsus shape of the male matched the images in Stephen Falk's album





These two image show a much Hairier variety of colletes

VB commented this is probably a fresher male Bare-saddled Colletes , which accounts for the hairiness





Out you come. That's my hole!

No way. it's mine

Large-headed Resin Bee ♀︎ (Heriades truncorum)



Hylaeus Sp?

The shape of the facial marking is different from the images below.

This looks almost round.

Chalk Yellow-face ?







Little Yellow-face bee (Hylaeus pictipes)









Orange-vented Mason Bee ♀︎ (Osmia leaiana)





Leaf-curtter Bee Sp (Megachile Sp)

Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile ligniseca)







Black bean Aphis (Aphis fabae)

Alkanet (Pentaglttis sempervirens)



Clover Sp

Trifolium rubens



Field Penny-cress (Thlaspi arvense)











Large Walnut Aphid (Panaphis juglandis) on the mid rib of the upper side of the leaves



Small Walnut Aphid (Chromaphis juglandicola) the underside of the leaf





Sputnik Spider (Paidiscura pallens)





Sycamore Aphid (Drepanosiphum platanoidis)







Tulip-tree Aphid (Illinoia liriodendri)





Aphid parasaitised by a Wasp Sp





Lome Hawk-moth (Mimas tiliae)







Spider Sp

Tags: Four-bandedFlowerBee, ColletesSp, Large-headedresinBee, White-facedBeeSp, Orange-ventedMasonBee, MegachileSp, Alkanet, BlackBeanAphid, LargeWalnutAphid, SycamoreAphid, CloverSp, TulipTreeAphid, SputnikSpider, LimeHawk-moth, SpiderSp, SmallWalnutAphid

Something I was introduced on Sunday popped in to view
when looking at some low hanging Oak branches today
at
Middle Harling Heath





Andricus seminationis gall found on the flowers of Oak (Quercus robur)



A Wasp Beetle (Clytus arietis) in Norwich at the start of the day





Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle (Agapanthia volloviridescens)




Lasius niger? on White Bryony (Bryonia dioica)




Basil-thyme (Acinos arvensis)



Very young Wooly Beech Aphids (Phyllaphis fagi) produce large amounts of wax

from

InfluentialPoints



Bee-fly exuvia complete with spines to help lever it out of the soil.











A delicate little weevil found on Mignonette (Reseda odorata)

Bruchela rufipes



Beewolf (Philanthus triangulum)



White Bryony (Bryonia dioica)















Bryony Mining Bee (Andrean florea)

All males





Denticulate Leather Bug (Coriomerus denticulatus)



Ground Bug Sp?

Trapezonotus Sp

There are three similar species that are difficult to separate.

Although one of them is partial to the Brecks.

Trapezonotus arenarius



Click Beetle Sp?



Dock Bugs (Coreus marginatus)



Drinker Moth (Eithris potatoria) caterpillar



Lackey Moth (Malacosoma neustria) caterpillar





Fairy-ring Longhorn (Pseudovadonia livida)











Hairy Rock-cress (Arabis hirsuta)



Robber Fly Sp

Disymachus trigonus ♀︎



Sedge Sp?



Sedge Sp?





Asagena phalarata





Mating Tiger Beetles (Cicindela campestris)



Ground Spider Sp

Most likely Zelotes latrellei









Bracken Hopper (Ditropis pteridis)



Blood Bee Sp (Sphecodes Sp)?

Many thanks to VB for help with ids

Tags: WaspBeetle, Andricusseminationis, Goolden-bloomedGreyLonghorn, Bryone, GardenAnt, Basil-thyme, WoollyBeechAphid, Bruchelarufipes, BeeWolf, DenticulateLeatherBug, GroundBugSp, ClickBeetleSp, DrinkerMoth, LackeyMoth, Fairy-ringLonghorn, HairyRock-cress, RobberflySp, SedgeSp, TigerBeetle, BrackenHopper, BloodBeeSp, SpiderSp, BryonyMiningBee, Bee-fly

Scorpion Fly Sp ♀︎ Panorpa Sp?




Fly Sp



Fly Sp



Spider Sp



Hoverfly Sp

Parsley Blacklet (Cheilosia pagana)

Tags: SpiderSp, ParsleyBlacklet, FlySp?, ScorpionFlySp, ♀︎