form violacea?







Blue-tailed Damsel Fly ♀︎ (Typica Form )


Eristalis Sp















Riponnenesia splendens





Goosegrass (Gallium apenine)











Helophilus pendulus













Volucella inflata







Myothropa florea





Parhelophilus Sp



Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascorum)





Pied Hoverfly (Volucella pellucens)















Wasp?

This turned out to be

Symmorphus gracilis

Thanks to @NorfolkNats & @StevenFalk1 for id











Xylota sylvarum



Xylota segnis



Volucella zonaria

Thanks to Steve & Gill Judd for id corrections and additions.

Tags: Blue-tailedDamselfly, Riponnensiasplendens, Goosegrass, Volucellazonaria, Xylotasegnis, PiedHoverfly, Xylotasilvarum, CommonCarderBee, ParhelophilusSp, Myothropa florea, Volucellainflata, Helophiluspendulus

Probably Stripped Slender Robberfly (leptogaster cylindrica)





This was an impressive little thing. It was gyrating it's wings as I watched.

?















This whole area was full of ant's nest.

This Ant's nest was extended up the Ragwort stem
and the Ant's were shepherding Blackfly.
There seem to be blackfly eggs perhaps at the top of the open nest.
Or are these structures deliberately built to allow the ants to bring the blackly close to the plants.



Bee Sp?

A metallic glint on the abdomen?





Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera)





Chrysotoxum bicinctum




Black & Yellow Longhorn Beetle (Rutpela maculata) with an accompanying cast of Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Oedemara nobilis)



Bumble Bee Sp













Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascorum)



Caterpillar beginning to Cocoon itself.





Caterpillar One of the Burnets



Broad-leaved Dock inflorescence. (Rumex obtusifolius)



Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)



Eristalis pertinax ♂︎(Front feet are yellow.)







The male provides food for the female to eat during mating.

Dagger Fly (Empis livida)



Hedge Woundwort (Stachys syvatica) & friend?.



and
the
delightful
Woundwort Shield Bug
(Eysarcoris venustissimus)





Xanthogramma pedissequum







Helophilus pendulus ♀︎



Hogweed (Hieracium spondylium)



Eumerus Sp



Our smallest Longhorn Beetle (Grammoptera ruficornis)







Fairy-ring Longhorn Beetle (pseudovadonia livida) Ant Sp?



Common Mouse-ear (Cerastium fontanum)



Ox-eye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)









Thick - legged Hoverfly (Syritta pipiens)



Gall Sp?



Sphecodes Sp

Possibly Bare-saddled Blood Bee







Soldier Fly Sp?







Sloe / Hairy Shield Bug (Dolycorus baccorum)



Smooth Tare (Evum tetraspermum)



?

I tried Strawberry Spot but it didn't Google well.

Ah No

Straw Dot (Rivula sericealis)









Eupeodes Sp ♀︎?





Wasp Sp?



Wasp Beetle (Clytus arietus)

Tags: AntSp, FlySp, SphecodesSp, SmoothTare, Fairy-ringLonghornBeetle, WaspBeetle, HairyShieldBug, BeeSp, BeeOrchid, YelowDungFly, GallSp, Thick-leggedHoverfly, Ox-eyeDaisy, CommonMouse-ear, Ox-eyeDaisy, LonghornBeetle, EumerusSp, Hogweed, Helophiluspendulus, Xanthogrammapedissequum, WoundwortShieldBug, HedgeWoundwort, DaggerFlySp, Eristalisp, Chrysotoxumbicinctum, Broad-leavedDock, Blacl&YellowLonghornBeetle, CommonCarderBee