Overcast and humid, with some short showers.
Calocoris stysi is a distinctive little (8mm.) Capsid Bug. It appears in great numbers and can be found sitting on Bramble and Hogweed leaves in most verges.
Dock leaves are taking a hammering from all sorts of attackers. These leaves have been eaten by Dock Leaf Beetle and show extensive mines of Pegomya solennis - an Agromyzid Fly. As the right-hand image shows, these flies are gregarious miners and the mine can cover the whole membrane of a leaf.
Pignut is a slight and delicate plant in all its parts. The fresh seeds look like beetles, presumably to confuse birds and trick them into eating (and then dispersing) them. Many umbellifers have seeds that mimic beetles for this purpose.
Another shot of Volucella bombylans, the bumblebee-mimicking hoverfly. I hadn't seen it in this location before, but I'm seeing them on every trip at the moment.
Not sure what this brown blotch on Ash leaves is. Must get it under the microscope.
