6 x Orange Tip (m), 9 x Green Veined White, 1 x Peacock, 1 x Speckled Wood, 1 x Small Tortoiseshell.
Warm and sunny all day. A fine day for butterflies and other insects.
I saw plenty of these 7-spot Ladybirds on all kinds of vegetation. Coccinella 7-punctata.
This Solitary Bee was obviously looking for somewhere to dig. A female Andrena haemorrhoa about 12mm long.
This is a much better shot of a male Bibio ferruginatus...a St. Marks Fly.
Normally I would have cropped this Pond Skater much closer, but I really like the reflection of the grass leaves in the composition. Gerris lacustris.
Two shots of Green-veined White. Both males, I think. The right-hand specimen looks to be newly emerged, as the wings are still inflating. Pieris napi.
Male Orange Tips were patrolling up and down the hedge. This one stopped for just a few seconds. Anthocharis cardamines.
Two small (1 cm.) hoverflies, showing one of the differences between Melanostoma and Platycheirus. Platycheirus (right) has enlarged front feet (tarsi).
The first Peacock I've seen for quite a few weeks.
Dozens of these tiny leaf beetles were crawling over the Meadow Buttercups by the stream.
A few of these were flying around my back garden. A Stonefly, I think. 2 cm long, and with an interesting wing attachment.
Another Syrphus shot. I didn't get a close look at the legs, but it's probably Syrphus ribesii.
This spider was frantically waving those 'antennae' in the air. I have no idea whether it was sensing or signalling.