Cloudy with prolonged showers.
A
fantastic (and quite large - 3cm.) Ichneumonid with very long legs and a
very short ovipositor. Interesting combination.
Staying with ovipositors, the first image is what I'd expect to see, but the second is severely distorted. I don't see it being able to lay many eggs with that.
(Right-hand photo taken vertically upwards on Angelica that was easily over 2m tall.)
Some Sawflies are very untidily put together. At least we can see the four wings on this one.
Dung-flies are often found hiding on the lower parts of umbellifer flowerheads, leaping up to catch their prey. This one has caught a black fly of some kind.
Another Ectemnius Wasp.
The hoverfly Eristalis arbustorum is one of the medium-sized Eristalis species.
It look like we have a second generation of Mesembrina meridiana. These were numerous in May and are now out and about again.
A side-shot of a medium-sized Ichneumonid.
The fungal season is well into its stride. The forestry has just undergone a thinning operation and piles of fresh logs lie on each side of the access road. This tiny (8mm) species is clearly an early coloniser - the wood is no more than 5 days old, and these were growing on exposed wood where the bark had been ripped off.
