Frequent heavy showers.
On a wet day insects tend to hide under leaves for protection. Here we have Eristalis (left) and Melanostoma (right) hoverflies.
A close-up of a female Orange Tip butterfly settling down for the night on Cardamine, as per usual. Note the eggs below her head. Although the larvae are cannibals, I sometimes find multiple eggs on single flower-heads at this end of their season: there are simply no empty ones left.
The second image is a close-up of the scales on her wings.
The Orange Tip larva that I'm following is now 4mm long.
A few Bumblebees were still gathering pollen.
The first Raspberry flower of the year.
I thought this was a Stilleto Fly, or something similar - they have a very humped thorax. The close-up shows that the 'hump' is actually a water drop. It actually looks like one of the Tetanocera - Snail-killing flies.