Cloudy with frequent showers.
Shield Bugs - in common with the other bugs - go through a series of nymph 'instars' before reaching their adult form. This is quite different from the three-stage (larva, pupa, adult) process adopted by flies, dragonflies, wasps, bees, butterflies and moths. Below we have three of the nymph stages of Pentatoma rufipes - the Forest Shield Bug, followed by the winged adult.
The resolution to a three-year mystery. I have had glimpses of this hoverfly on several occasions, but this is the first time I've managed a shot of the distinctive abdomen. That identifies it as Platycheirus granditarsus.
A spider's larder holding a Bibio lanatus (St. Marks Fly) and the close-up shows the various parts of an Ichneumonid.
The Ichneumonid has been dismembered and then reassembled in the wrong order. The bits are (left to right) abdomen, head and thorax.
Another first for me: the larva of the hoverfly Syrphus ribesii. These feed exclusively on aphids, and this one was catching them one after the other. When I visited the plant the next day, all the aphids were gone.
Two micromoths: Udea lutealis (left) and a second-generation Ancylis badiana (right).
Another Cixiid.
A second-generation Green-veined White.