A gap in between heavy showers.
One of the Dolichopodidae - Thick-Headed flies.
A tiny (5mm) micromoth - Elasticha apicipunctella. I often see insects exploring fungal rusts: I wonder if they're eating spores.
I could say "5 mm" all day but this image gives some sense of scale to the above pictures. The leaf is Bramble.
A nice shot of a female Melanostoma scutatus hoverfly, showing the abdominal markings. I liken them to 'mittens'.
We're in a Spruce plantation and this is the Spruce Carpet moth.
It will still be several weeks before the Square-stalked St. Johns Wort is in flower.
An excellent little Ichneumonid, about 6mm long.
This appears to be a fungal rust on Dandelion.
I see hundreds of these Dock Leaf Beetles every week, but this gravid female is the first I've seen on Sorrel.