Persistent heavy rain.
Angelica has flowered, so you can expect plenty of insect pictures over the next few weeks.
I'll start with a couple of Ichneumonids: I hope to show a wide array this year.
Hogweed is also still attracting insects like this green Capsid bug (left) and another Ichneumonid (right).
Yellow Raspberries have followed the red ones.
I seems like only yesterday that Beech was starting to get in leaf.
Ragwort is the bane of farmers and horse-owners, but I know of several moths that depend on Ragwort as their sole foodplant.
The roses have set fruit, too.
Another shot of the minute micromoth Elachista albifrontella.
Spear Thistle is in flower and is attracting picture-wing flies and also Ichneumonids. Expect some new Ichneumonid pictures later.
Meanwhile, the promise of yet more Angelica flowerheads.