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Grimston Warren
Looking towards Roydon Common
Common Bent (Agrostis capillaris)
Trifid Burr-Marigold (Bidens tripartita)
Green phyllaries, only disc florets no ray florets
Brookweed (Samolus valerandi)
Lucerne Bug (Adelphocoris lineolatus)
Slightly older
Spiked Sedge (Carex spicata)
Colletes Sp
Hairy-saddled Colletes (Colletes fodiens)?
A cross between Corn Mint (Mentha arvensis) and Water Mint (Mentha aquatica)
Marsh Cudweed (Gnaphalium uliginosum)
Early Hair Grass (Aira praecox)
Alder Buckthorn (Frangula alnus)
Gall on Fen Bedstraw ( Galium uliginosum)
Possibly Geocrypta galli or Dasyneura hygrophila
Phalangium opilio ♂︎
Heather Colletes (Colletes succinctus)
Yorkshire Fog (Holcus lanatus)
Square-stalked St John's Wort (Hypericum tetrapterum)
Ichneumon Sp
Annual Knawel (Scleranthus annuus)
Polygonum Sp? 
Little feet. Lower leaves on the stem.
Lady Fern (Athyrium felix femina)
Bristle Club-rush (Isolepis setacea)
Lousewort (Pendicularis palustris) seed pods
Batman Hoverfly (Myathropa florea)
Adder's Tongue Fern (Ophioglossum vulgatum)
Oval Sedge (Carex leporina)
Marsh Ragwort (Jacobea aquatica)
Robberfly Sp?
Black-horned Nomad Bee ♂︎ (Nomada rufipes)
Floating Club-rush (Eleogeton fluitans)
Blunt-flowered Rush (Juncus subnodulosus)
Thick-legged Hoverfly (Syritta pipiens)
Thistle Sp basal rosette
Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi)
Lesser Water Plantain (Baldellia ranunculoides)
Water Purslane (Lythrum portula)
Hornet Plumehorn (Volucella zonaria)
Characteristic purple rhizoids of Fossombronia Sp
Fossombronia Sp?
Heart-leaved Spear-moss (Calliergon cordifolium)
Creeping Bent (Agrostis stolonifera)
Very long awns 5.5-8mm
Dense Silky Bent (Aptera interrupta)
Largely restricted to East Anglia
Bearded Fescue (Vulpia ciliata subs ambigua)
Even longer Awns 7.7-11.5mm
Brown Bent (Agrostis vinealis)
Hanworth
White-footed Fly (Platycheirus albimanus)
Fly sp
A metallic green Lasioglossum Sp
Large-headed resin Bee (Heriades truncorum)
Orange-belted Leaf Licker (Xylota segnis)
Hanworth
Chalcid Wasp Sp
One of the metetallic green Lasioglossum Sp
Heavily punctuated on the thorax
Common Green Furrow Bee (Lasioglossum morio)
Large-headed Resin Bee (Heriades truncorum)
Megachile Sp?
Mint Moth (Pyraustra aurata)
Common Awl Robberfly (Neoitamus cyanurus)
Golden-moustached Fly Fox (Ectemnius cavifrons)?
Trichrysis cyanea
Horning
Annual Pearlwort (Sagina apetela)
Silverweed (Argentina anserina)
Large Cat's Ear Aphid (Uroleucon hypochoeridis) on Cat's Ear (Hypchoeris radicata)
Aphid Sp?
Amphibious Bistort (Persicaria amphibia)
Black Bindweed (Fallopian convolvulus)
Smooth Hawk's-beard (Crepis capillaris) nestled in a kerbstone crack.
Clustered Mouse-ear (Cerastium glomeratum)
Flower head not tapered at the base, but narrows abruptly into the stem
Lesser Hawkbit (Leontodon saxatilis)
Leaf hairs distinctly forked at the tip.
Flower stem only hairy at the base
Common Stork's-bill (Erodium cicutarium)
Contoneaster Sp?
Douglas Fir Cone (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
The three pong bracts are diagnostic as no other tree has cones like this.
Also the scales are not hard & woody.
Bilbao Fleabane (Erigeron floribundus(
Stem and seed capsules with bulbous red bases to hairs
Red central vein on leaves
Stigma much longer than the stamens
Sepals stained red
Large-flowered Evening Primrose (Oenathera glazioviana)
Fern Grass (Catapodium rigidum)
Field Pansy (Viola arvensis)
Aphids on Fennel
Mealy Fennel Aphid (Dysaphis foeniculus)
Fig-leaved Goosefoot (Cenopodiun ficifolium)
Small-flowered Cranesbill (Geranium pusilum)
Honeysuckle leaves Sp?
Yellow-barred Peat Hoverfly (Sericomya silentis)
Dwarf Mallow (Malva neglecta)
Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)
Equal-leaved Knotgrass (Polygonum depressum)
Procumbent Pearlwort (Sagina procumbens)
Common Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisifolia)
Common Ramping Fumitory (Funaria muralis)
Robinia / Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
Meadow Rue (Thalictrum minus)
Basal rosette of Lesser Hawkbit (Leontodon saxatilis)
Caucasian Stonecrop (Sedum spurium)
Spurge Sp?
Smooth Tare (Ervum tetraspermum)
Thale Cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
Periwinkle (Vinca major)
Very enlarged leaves growing in the shade
Wall-rue (Asplenium ruta-muraria)
?
Little Plumstead
Apple Leaf Mining Moth (Leonetia clerkella)) - leaf mine 
Buddleja lindleyana
Volutella Blight on Box
Pseudonectria buxi
Dock Bug Nymph (Coreus marginatus)
Ramularia ajugae
Castor Oil Plant (Ricinus communis)
Rust on Cosmos
Powdery Mildew on Courgette Leaf
Epilobium Sp?
Daisy Sp?
Giant Woodwasp (Urocerus gigas)
Orange-vented Mason Bee (Osmia leaiana)
Migrant Hawker ♂︎ (Aeshna mixta)
Spanish Fennel Flower (Nigella hispanica)
Native to Spain, Portugal & France 
Nowickia ferox
Olive Salver (Catinella olivacea)
Pearlwort
Procumbent Pearlwort (Sagina procumbens)
Seed capsules
Pear Juniper Rust
So named because the spores released by the rust in summer / autumn
from a pear tree spend the winter forming the fungus on a Juniper tree, which being an evergreen harbours the fungus over winter and then releases spores
again in the spring/summer to reinfect the Pear .
Downy Mildew on Geranium phaeum
Nemesia
Butterfly Sword Lilly (Gladiolus papilio)
Spotted Widow's Tears (Tinantia pringlei)
Currant leaf-curling Aphid
Elsinoe rosarum on Rose
from
Plant Parasites of Europe
?
? 
Salvia azurea?
Birch Shieldbug (5th Instar) (Elosmostethus interstinctus)
Yoke-leaved Amicia (Amicia zygomeris)
Oak Bush Cricket (Meconema thalassinum)
Prickly Poppy (Argemone albiflora)
Sweet Pea Mildew
Ereothrix rufomaculata
Thale Cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
? feeding on the Periwinkle Rust
Periwinkle Rust (Puccinia vincae)
?
Fig-leaf Skeletoniser Moth (Choreutis nemorana)
Mulberry leaf Spot on Black Mulberry (Morus nigra)
European Paper Wasp Sp
Polistes dominula
Perenospora meconopsidis on Welsh Poppy (Mecanopsis cambrica)
Rudbeckia
Eucomis Sp
Superb Ant-hill Hoverfly (Xanthogramma pedissequm) sensu lato
Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana)
Light Emerald (Campaea margaritaria)
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing (Noctua janthe)
Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta)
Dusky Thorn (Ennomos fuscantaria)
Common Marble Moth (Celypha lacunana)
Caddis Fly Sp
Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata)
Brass Y (Argyresthia geodartella)
Box-tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis)
Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum)
Small Rivulet (Perizoma alchemillata)
Orange Swift (Triodia sylvina)
The adults have no proboscis so do not feed
Dark Spectacle (Abrostola tripartita)
Pistol Case Bearer larval case (Coleophora anatipennella)
This one was found at Hoveton Hall
Green Carpet (Colystiga pectinataria)
Mosquito Sp?
Ancistrocerus Sp?
This was confirmed by the Norfolk Recorder as Ancistrocerus gazella
Flax Lilly (Dianella caerulea)
Large White Caterpillar (Pieris brassicae)
Pseudoscorpion
Savigny's Shining Claw (Lamprochernes savignyi)
Harlequin Glory Bower (Clerodendron trichotomum)
Everlasting Flower Sp?
Helichrysum bracteatum?
Euphorbia Sp? Euphorbia myrsinites?
Seeds Sp?
Sempervivum Sp?
Metallic green Lasioglossum Sp?
Tare Sp?
Slender Tare (Ervum gracile)?
Irregular shape 
Grass green needles in threes between 8-15cm long
Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata) ?
Cley
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) 
Hedge Mustard (Sistmbrium officinale)
Aphid Sp? on Hedge Mustard
The stretch of Common Reed across bare ground
Chinese Water Deer (Hydropotes inermis)
East Harling
Dark Bush-cricket ♂︎(Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
Common Gromwell (Lithospremum officinale)
Fen Bedstraw
Apiculate leaves.
Square stems with downward pointing prickles on the angles.
Water Violet whorls (Hottonia palustris) with Callitriche sp showing through.
Floating Crystalwort (Riccia fluitans) with Lemna Sp
Smooth hawk's-beard (Crepis capillaris)
A possible cross between Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre) & Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense)
Marsh Speedwell? (Veronica scutellata)
Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi)
Gall Midge (Jaapiella veronicae) Germander Speedwell (Veronica chamaedrys)
Pepper Saxifrage (Silaum silaus)
Hairy Rock-cress (Arabis hirsuta)
Birch Catkin Bugs (Kleidocerys resedae)
Longhorn Beetle (Stictoleptura rubra)
Cyperus Sedge (Carex pseudocyperus)
A female without the usually associated male flowers
Bulbils in the leaf axils of Round-fruited Rush (Juncus compressus)
Cranwich Heath
Sickle Medick (Medicago falcata)
Robberfly Sp? with prey
Pantaloon Bee ♀︎ (Dasypoda hirtirpes)
Lesser Meadow Rue (Thalictrum minus)
Blue Fleabane (Erigon acer)
Bronze Shieldbug (Troilus luridus)
Burr Medick (Medicago polymorpha)
Field Bindweed (Convulvulus arvensis)
Fly Sp?
All affected by fungus
Grass Sp?
Common Field Grasshopper? (Chorthippus brunneus)
Buckthorn Bent-wing mine (Bucculatrix frangutella) on Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
Weevil on Dark Mullein
Larvae in the upper images
Cionus nigritarsis on Dark Mullein (Verbascum nigrum)
Wild Carrot (Daucus carota)
A very beautiful fly
Ectophasia crassipenis 
Smooth Rupturewort (Herniaria glabra)
Small Scabious Mining Bee (Andrena marginata)
Sedge Sp?
Holkham
Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum)
?
Elm branch
Oak Knopper Gall (Andricus quercuscalisis)
Oak Apple Gall Wasp (Biorhiza pallida)
Oak Mildew (Erysiphe alphitoides)
Peacock (Aglais io)
Perennial Sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis)
Lesser Dung Fly Sp? (Sepsis Sp?) on seed heads of Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica)
Red-banded Sand Wasp (Ammophila sabulosa)
Shieldbug Stalker (Astata Boops)
Beewolf (Philanthus triangulum)
Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum)
Small Spotty-eyed Dronefly (Eristalinus sepulchralis)
Hairs on the lower half of the eye.
Broad-leaved Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus latifolius)
The Footballer (Helophilus pendulus)
Long-winged Conehead (Conocephalus fuscus)
Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi)
Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris)
Mottled Grasshopper (Myrmeleotettix maculatus)
Blue Fleabane (Erigeron acer) seedheads
Dune Robberfly (Philonicus albisceps)
Sea Holly (Eryngium planum)
Spider Sp?
Sea Holly (Eryngium planum)
Sea Spurge (Euphorbia paralias)
Beewolf (Philanthus triangulum)
Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus)
Sea Lavender (
Grass-leaved Orache (Atriplex littoralis)
Glasswort (Salicornia europea)
Sea Purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum)
Orache Sp
Conops quadrifasciatus
Spaerophoria Sp
Araneus diadematus
Wasp Plumehorn (Volucella innanis)
Hylaeus Sp?
Given the very small white markings
on the face and the large size
possibly
Large Yellow-face Bee (Hylaeus signatus)
Buff-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris)
Megachile Sp?
Hanworth
Struggling to get into the air from the short grass.
Coelioxys Sp?
Ruby-tailed Wasp Sp?
Hanworth
Wall Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus parietinus)
Coelioxys Sp
Leafcutter Sp
According to the key in the Bee Field Guide
Tergite 6 - All hairs on the dorsal surface short
Clypeus sparsely punctuated
Apex of tergite 6 broadly rouded
Leads to
Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile ligniseca)
The hairs bands on the tergites seem very obvious.
Possibly
Little Dark Bee (Sterilis brevicuila)
Horned Black Wasp (Passaloeucus corniger)
Hanworth
Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile ligniseca)
front tarsi unmodified
?
Ruby-tailed Wasp Sp (Ignata Group)
Fly Sp
Fly Sp
Srumpshaw Fen
Leafcutter Sp (Megachile Sp)
From the Bee Guide
There are long erect or semi erect hairs over much of the surface of tergite 6
Very clear in the low image
Pollen Brush black-haired apically
Head not conspicuously black-haired
Tergites 3-5 with pale hair bands.
Leads to
Willoughby's Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile willoughbiella)
Oak (Quercus robur) Acorn 
Wall Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus parietinus)
Box Bug (Gonocerus acuteangulatus)
Deraeocoris ruber
Orthops campestris
Rough Chervil (Chaerophyllum temulum)
Dark Bush-cricket (Pholodoptera griseoaptera)
♂︎
♀︎
Phantom Cranefly Sp
Pond Strong-mark Foldwing (Ptychoptera contaminata)
Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax) ♂︎
Stripe-faced Dronefly (Eristalis nemorum)
Tachina fera
Gall on Upright Hedge Parsley (Torilis japonica)
Keifferia pericarpiicola
Dicranopalpus Agg on an Ivy (Hedera helix) leaf
Helophilus pendulus ♂︎
Hop (Humulus lupulus) flowers 
Volucella inanis
?
Whitebeam?
Large-headed Resin Bee (Heriades truncourm)
Four-banded Longhorn Beetle (Leptura quadrifasciata)
?
Common Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina) Finla instar
Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima)
Mildew on Spindle (Euonymus europaeus) Leaf 
Water Dock (Rumex hydrolapatham) Fruit 
Willow Emerald (Chalcostes viridis)
Volucella zonaria
Norwich Herb Garden
Bladder Sienna (Colutea arborescens)
Wormwood Aphid (Macrosiphoniella absinthii)
Sweet Briar Marsh
Leefhopper Nymph skin sheddings
Himalayan Giant Blackberry (Rubus armeniacus)
Midge Larvae
Dusky Plume Moth (Oidaematophorus lithodactyla)
Hairy Dog Rose (Rosa coryimbifera)
Bramble Sp?
Common Meadow-rue (Thalictum flavum)
Complete with the gall of the midge
Ametrodiplosis thalictricola
Smut fungus Ustilago avenae on False Oat Grass 
Gall on Crack Willow?
Tasteless Water-pepper (Persicaria mitis)?
Duly tested
Honningham
Infertile Bramble
Two-banded Spearhorn (Chrysotoxum bicinctum)
Green-flowered Helleborine (Epipactis phyllanthes)
Blofield Church
Large Cat's-ear Aphid (Uroleucon hypochoeridis) on the stem of Cat's-ear (Hypochoeris radicata)
There is also a Cat's-ear root aphid to look for.
Zebra Jumping Spider (Salticus scenicus)
Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca)
Common Myrtle (Myrtus communis)
Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis)
Marty's Marsh
Possibly European Alder Sawfly (Fenusa dohmii)?
Artichoke Gall Wasp (Andricus foecundatrix) on Oak (Quercus robur)
The asexual generation of the Artichoke Gall Wasp. In spring the adult wasps emerge to lay eggs in Oak Catkins from which the sexual generation will occur.
Beautiful Plume Moth (Amblyptilia acanthadactyla)
Soldier beetle having encountered an entomophthoragic fungus?
Banded Burdock Fly (Tephritis bardanae)
Mirid Bug Sp?
Orthops basilis?
Stenotus binotatus?
Caddis Fly Sp
Glyphotaelius pellucidus ♂︎
The notch gives this one away.
Short-winged Conehead ♀︎ (Conocephalus dorsalis)
Cranefly affected by entomophthoragic fungus
Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera)
Blackberry Leaf mIdge
Dasineura plicatrix
Dock sp
Clustered Dock (Rumex conglomeratus)?
Marshy meadows
Small Spotty-eyed Dronefly (Eristalinus sepulchris)
Fly Sp?
Fungus Sp?
Galingale (Cyperus longus)
Mildew on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
Erysiphe alliaricola
Leiobonum rotundum ♀︎?
Opilio canestrinii
Southern Hawker ♀︎ (Aeshna cyanea)
Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia sepium)
Bracteoles only slightly or do not overlap
Large Bindweed (Calystegia sylvatica)
Bracteoles overlapping at the base of the flower
Chequered Hoverfly ♂︎ (Melanostoma scalare) attacked by entomophthagic fungus
Ichneumon Sp?
A good chance this is Hepiopelmus melanogaster
On Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis) ?
Mosquito Sp?
Musk Mallow (Malva moschata)
Oak Powdery Mildew (Erysiphe alphitoides)
Orange Balsam (Impatiens capensis)
Blood-vein Moth (Timandra comae)
Red Oak (Quercus rubra)
The acorns take two years to mature.
Oxyporus rufus
Ustilago Sp on Carex Sp
Early stage
Later stage
Septoria caricis on Carex Sp
Orange-belted Leaf Licker (Xylota segnis)
Parent Bug (Elasmucha grisea)
Little Snipe Fly (Chrysopilus asiliformis)
Snipe Fly
Chrysopilus cristatus
Mating pair
♂︎
♀︎
Broad Centurion (Chlorormyia formosa)
SpiderSp with Sawfly Sp prey
Sawfly Sp Prey
Lesser Stag Beetle ( Dorcus parallelipipedus)
Water Starwort Sp (Callitriche Sp)
Callitriche stagnalis?
An excellent example of a Stictis Sp on a dead stem
This one came from Cremer's Meadow
Taphrina sadebeckii
From
Plant Parasites from Europe
Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) seeds
Fat-palped Tachina (Nowickia ferox)
Legs and the scutellum are black/dark
The central band is a black zigzag
From
Tachinid Recording Scheme
How to split Tachina Types from photos
Gall on Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare)
A fly gall ( Rhopalomyia taneceticola)
Tansy Aphid (Macrosiphoniella tanacetaria)
Teasel (Dipsacus fallonum)
Adult
Final instar
Tortoise Shield Bug (Eurygaster testudinaria)
Single-dotted Wave (Idaea dimidiata)
Heliozella resplendella
Mine formed in the leaf vein and midrib followed by the cut out.
from
British Leafminers
Willow Emerald (chalcolestes viridis)
Aphid Sp on Meadow Vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis) with Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica) in the background
Likely young form of Megoura viciae
From
InfluentialPoints.com
Sadly this wasn't THE Meadow Vetchling Aphid and there are seven other species that use Meadow Vetchling in the UK
