Heavy and frequent rain showers.
The seeds of Meadowsweet always remind me of human hands.
I can key this fly only as far as the Empididae, or Dance Flies. It's about 7mm long. The spherical head is composed almost entirely of eyes.
I've been looking for this Cassida rubiginosa - Thistle Tortoise Beetle - without success this year and then I find a larva and a pupa at the same time. The larva carries around a pile of dead skin and dung on its back (top picture).
The pupae look like ancient Trilobites.
This species is featured in one of my Species Profiles.
Most of the Froghoppers that I find turn out to be colour varieties of Philaenus spumarius, but this isn't one of them. I'll have to leave it at Cercopidae for the moment.
A couple of weeks ago I showed a fungus growing on horse manure. Here's another from the same pile. Looks like Panaeolus sphinctrinus.