Heavy rain.
Both local Clovers have opened on the same day.
Neoascia podagrica has always bothered me. Those inflated rear thighs would be excellent mimcry for a pollen-collecting bee if it wasn't for the size of the hoverfly: this specimen is about 6mm long, and far too small to mimic any locally occurring bee. So why bother mimicking something that doesn't exist? One theory is that the hoverfly mimics a bee that once existed, but is now extinct, and it has just retained the mimicry, even though it no longer serves any useful purpose.
Herb Robert has returned. Our cooler spring this year meant that the flowers disappeared for a couple of months.
These seedpods of the Thale Cress would make a good quiz picture.
A new moth for the website: Grey Pine Carpet - Thera obeliscata, and it's on Scots Pine. I've made an important discovery about moth identification: pattern is often more important than colour.
An unknown Muscid Fly. And it's likely to remain that way.
Female flowers of the Scots Pine add a bit of colour to an otherwise dull landscape.