Short Fringed Mining Bee (Andrena dorsatta) perhaps ?





White-tailed Bumble Bee ♂︎ (Bombus lucorum)











Eristalis pertinax ♂︎











Heather Mining Bee (Andrena fuscipes)



Platycheirus fulviventris ♀︎ perhaps?





Melanostoma scalare ♀︎





Common Green Shield Bug - 3rd Instar Nymph (Palomena prasina)



Ling (Calluna vulgaris)



Rush Sp







Ornate Tailed Digger Wasp (Cerceris rybyensis)





Sloe Bug (Dolycorus baccarum)



Short-winged Conehead ♂︎ (Conocephalus dorsalis)

Not quite

The conehead is a female Long-winged Conehead nymph - nymph
because the stripe is black not brown (hence why the wings aren't fully developed)

Thanks to @NorfolkNats for the id correction.



Spider Sp

The images below I thought were

Tormentil Mining Bee (Andrena tarsata)

Things are never quite that simple.

Apparently there are a number of A dorsata in amongst these pictures.

Nick Owens comment

Some of the tormentil bees are Andrena dorsata – but very worn. They have more distinctive white side-bands and rufous hairs on the thorax – also a bit bigger I think.
The tibia is dark not orange as in A. tarsata though you can’t see this under the pollen.

So I'm going to put a D to ones I think are A dorsata looking for the distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs on the thorax.



?





White side Bands not distinctive and no visible rufous hairs.



White side Bands not distinctive and no visible rufous hairs.



White side bands too distinctive perhaps

D



White side Bands not distinctive. A touch of orange on the thorax?



White side Bands not distinctive.



White side Bands not distinctive but visible orange hairs on thorax.

D?



White side Bands not distinctive but visible orange hairs on thorax.

D?



Difficult ?



Rufous hairs on thorax D



White side bands not distinctive and no rufous hairs.



White side bands not distinctive and no rufous hairs.



Distinctive side bands - D



Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D



Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D



Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D



Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D



Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D



?





Distinctive white side bands and rufous hairs - D

Tormentil Mining Bee (Andrena tarsata)

Things are never quite that simple.

Apparently there are a number of A dorsata in amongst these pictures.

Nick Owens comment

Some of the tormentil bees are Andrena dorsata – but very worn. They have more distinctive white side-bands and rufous hairs on the thorax – also a bit bigger I think.
The tibia is dark not orange as in A. tarsata though you can’t see this under the pollen.

So I'm going to a D to ones I think are A dorsata

Thus If I managed to find one Tormentil Mining Bee I was lucky.

Next Year!!



Tormentil (Potentilla erecta)





Black-banded Spider Wasp (Anoplius viaticus)

Tags: White-tailedBumbleBee, Eristalispertinax, Black-bandedSpiderWasp, TormentilMiningBee, Tormentil, HeatherMiningBee, SpiderSp, Short-wingedConehead, SloeBug, OrnateTailedDiggerWasp, RushSp, Ling, PlatycheirusSp, CommonGreenShieldbug, MelanostomaSp

Lady's Bedstraw (Galium verum)



Common Blue ♀︎ (Polyommatus icarus) on Carline Thistle (Carline vulgaris)



Bramble Sp



Cardinal Beetle Sp









Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris)









Yellow-legged Clearwing (Synanthedon vespiformis)











Creeping Lady's-Tresses (Goodyera repens)



Comma (polygonia c-album)







Fleabane (Erigeron acris)



Hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum)



Fly Sp?



Fly Sp?



Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus)



Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)



Peacock (Aglais io)

Lots of Peacock flying today.





Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

Quite a smattering to Red Admirals too.



Sawfly Sp Common Rose Sawfly perhaps?






Common Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina) Final instar nymph



Slime Mold Sp



Fungus Sp?







Spaerophoria Sp? Dark-footed Twist-tailed Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria philanthus) perhaps.



Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera)









Wasp Sp? Intermediate Digger Wasp (Crabro peltarius) perhaps?











Ornate-tailed Digger Wasp (Cerceris rybyensis)



















Yellow-faced Bee Sp (Hylaeus Sp) Possibly Hylaeus pectoralis? Mating next to the reedbed on the Sowthistle just before the Meal's House

Confirmed

Reed Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus pectoralis)

Thanks to Nick Owens for confirming id.

Tags: Lady'sBedstraw, CommonBlueButterfly, CarlineThistle, WallBrown, CommonGreenShieldbug, Fleabane, Yellow-leggedClearwing, CreepingLady's-Tresses, HollyBlue, PaintedLady, Peacock, RedAdmiral