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Hanworth
Sharp-tailed Bee Sp (Coelioxys Sp)
Possibly Shimy-vented Sharp-tail Bee (Coelioxys enermis)
Harebell Carpenter Bee (Chelostoma campanularum)
Large-headed Resin Bee (Heriades truncorum)
Little Dark Bee? (Stelis brevuiscula)
Megachile Sp?
Rove Beetle Sp?
Ruby-tailed Wasp Sp?
Holme
Female at rest complete with leaf
A male waiting for an opportunity to mate.
A female leaving the nest backwards.
A female arriving at the nest with a leaf segment.
Silvery Leafcutter Bee (Megachile leachella)
Old Man's Beard / Traveller's Joy (Clematis vitalba)
Galls on the leaves of Old Man's beard
Harebells (Campanula rotundifolia) in the dunes 
Short-winged Conehead ♀︎ (Conocephalus dorsalis)
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A very elegant Coastal Silver-stilleto Fly (Acrosathe annulata)
Red-legged Spider Wasp (Episyron rufipes)
She was digging in the area of the hole in the image above
Gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonius)
Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)
Willow - Wild Parsnip Aphid (Cavariella theobaldi)
Dune Robberfly (Philonicus albiceps)
Sand Sedge (Carex arenaria)
Galls on the leaves of Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) caused by the mite Aceria hippophaeana
Hanworth
Large-headed Resin Bee (Heriades truncorum)
Mourning Wasp (Pemphredon lagubris)
Wool Carder Bee (Anthidium manicatum)
Foxley Wood
Oak (Quercus robur)
Ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
Powdery Mildew
on
Alder
Erysiphe penicillata
You can just about see it. 
Leiobonum rotundum
Aceria aceriscampestris is a mite that causes galls to form on Field Maple (Acer campestris)
Bronze Shieldbug ? (Troilus luridus) Mid Instar Nymph
The
Exqusite
Alder Moth Caterpillar (Acronicta alni)
Wild snow
Angelica (Angelica archangelica) flowers
On Aspen?
?
False Brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum)
Blackberry Leaf Midge
The larvae of the Blackberry Leaf Midge (Dasineura plicatrix) cause galls to form on Bramble.
The young leaf is creased, pleated or buckled with thickened veins.
The larvae are present in the creases briefly in late spring and early summer.
from
Naturespot
Roesel's bush-cricket (Roeseliana roeselli)
Choke (Epichloe Sp) on Cock's-foot (Dactylis glomerata) 
Cock's-foot grass (Dactylis glomerata)
Common Dewberry (Rubus caesius)
Dock Sp
Dock Sp
A gall midge Dasineura pustulans causes this kind of gall on Meadowsweet
Gall on Meadowsweet
The larva of the Gall Midge Dasineura ulmaria causes gall to form on Meadosweet (Filipendula ulmaria)
Meadowsweet Rust?
Ergot (Claviceps purpureus) on False oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius)
From Botany in Scotland
False Fox-sedge (Carex otrubae)
Powdery Mildew
Whitish covering on the leaves of Field Maple (Acer campestre)
Sawadaea bicornis
Fungus Sp?
Galls of the Gall Midge (Harmandiola tremulae) on the upper side of an Aspen Leaf ?
This is caused by the Gall Mite Aceria tenuis
Grass Sp?
Harvestmen Sp
Dicranopalpus ramosus agg
Hazel (Corylus avellana) nuts.
Upright Hedge Parsley (Torilis japonica) flower head.
The following images show various Chequered Hoverflies (Melanostoma scalare) that were seen hanging from the grass False Brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum ) at a height of about a metre from the ground.
Also of two attached to Common Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria)
They had all been infected by an Entomophthoragic fungus
♂︎
Early stage of infection presumably.
Well and truly stuck and not moving.
The hoverfly looks pristine and wings have yet to open
On Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria)
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Early stage the hoverfly looks pristine and wings have yet to open. No movement.
The lower hoverfly actually flew off the one attached to the grass but presumably had been infected.
Very different stage.
The wings are open and you can see the spores beginning to cover the insect.
A much more advanced state. The hovers are well and truly adhered to the plant. The insects have reached about a metre from the ground.
The wings are outstretched and the spores are pouring from their bodies.
On False Brome (Brachypodium sylvaticum)
The curious case of
epizootics
or
"The Zombies"
Entomophora fungal species
elicit dramatic behaviours in infected hosts
to
promote optimal spore dispersion
The genus Entomophthora:bringing the insect destroyers into the twenty-first century.
The images above show examples of infected hosts that have climbed the plants ('summiting disease') to give the fungus the best chance of spore dispersal.
When the proboscis touches the plant it adheres and thus effectively glues the hoverfly in place.
The wings will eventually raise up away from the dorsal abdomen
The legs have grasped the plant as well.
in this case
The Chequered Hoverfly (Melanostoma scalere)
Largely females but at least one male was found.
For more detailed information about the possible processes in play the article linked to above is a good summary.
Lesser Water Parsnip (Berula erecta)
Red-brown Longhorn Beetle (Stictoleptura rubra)
Timothy Grass (Phleum pratense)
Possibly Glandular Dog-rose (Rosa squarrosa)?
Glandular hairs on leaf tips and on stem. Leaves biserrate 
A powdery mildew sp
Podosphaera pannosa
Heath Wood Rush (Luzula multiflora subsp congesta)?
Rush Sp - Smooth Rush? (Juncus effusus) in flower
Glaucous Sedge (Carex flacca)
Ferruginous Bee-grabber (Sicus ferrigineus)
New Forest Shieldbug (Eysarcoris aeneus) ?
Late instar
Anther-smut (Microbotryum silene dioicae) on Red Campion (Silene dioica)
Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia)
Long-jawed Orb weaver Sp (Tetragnatha Sp) & prey
Yellow-faced Bee Sp (Hylaeus Sp) Just didn't turn round
Grimston Heath
An beautiful extensive grassland restoration with lots to find.
A belt of Pampas Grass surrounding a small copse of Pines.
The leaves were quite broad thus Cortaderia selloana
There is a another species with long, thin razor edged leaves that grows to 7m
Cortaderia jubata
Broad-margined Mining Bee (Andrena dorsatta)
Amaranth Sp?
Basil Thyme (Clinopodium acinos)
Burnet Saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga)
Field Bugloss (Lycopsis arvensis)?
Puccinia Sp?
Puccinia recondita?
The larvae of the Blackberry Leaf Midge (Dasineura plicatrix) cause galls to form on Bramble.
The young leaf is creased, pleated or buckled with thickened veins.
The larvae are present in the creases briefly in late spring and early summer.
from
Naturespot
Brown Argus (Aricia agestis)
Night-flowering Catchfly (Silene noctiflora)
with six petals rather than five.
Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea)
Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Thick-headed Fly Sp (Conopid Fly Sp) attacked by a fungus.
Physocephala rufipes
Dock sp
Becuase of the red colour and the shape of the leaves this gives a clue to the hybrid
Rumex crispus x obtusifolius
Dusky Sallow (Eremobia ochroleuca)
Small-flowered Evening Primrose (Oenathera cambrica)
Euphrasia pseudokerneri
Cross between E pseudokerneri & E confusa
Eyebright Sp (Euphrasia pseudokerneri)
Field Pansy (Viola arvensis)
Field Scabious seed head (Knautia arvensis)
Forester Moth (Ascita statices) on one of its favourite flowers Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)
Upright Hedge-parley (Torilis japonica)
Knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
Some discussion about whether this could be a hybrid?
Gold-tailed Melitta (Melitta haemorrhoidalis)
Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)
Aphids on Wild Parsnip
Willow - Parsnip Aphid (Cavariella theobaldii)
Alternates seasonally between two distantly related host plant species.
In this case the woody (Willow) host species , where sexual reproduction takes place and a
herbaceous host (Wild Parsnip) where reproduction is asexual
Fodder Radish (Raphanus sativus. oleiformis)
Wild Clary (Salvia vernbenaca)
White blister rust on Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
Although apparently it's not actually a rust.
It is an oomycete. Albugo candida
A thick white layer of sporangia that smother contorted and, often, enlarged parts of the plant.
More closely related to Brown Algae than to fungi.
Smothered in white
from
White Knights Biodiversity
Small Scabious Mining Bee (Andrena marginata)
Hoary Mullein (Verbascum pulverulentum)
Great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus)
Dark Mullein (Verbascum nigrum)
White Bryony (Bryony dioica)
Wild Basil (Clinopodiun vulgare)
Willowherb Sp?
Hanworth
Large-headed Resin Bee (Heriades truncorum)
The key was the lack of scopa.
I had a feeling this wasn't quite right
As it turned out this is actually
a
Little Dark Bee ♀︎ (Stelis breviuscula) the cleptoparasite of Heriades truncorum
The first Norfolk record was in 2022 as it follows the progress of Large-headed Resin Bee north
Wood-carving Leafcutter Bee (Megachile ligneseca)
but may be
Megachile versicolor because of the very dark hairs at the ned of the scope
Ruby-tailed Wasp Sp?
This may be
Chrysura radians 
Crossocerus Sp?
The orange legs help with this one
Horned Black Wasp (Passaloecus corniger)
?
This turned out to be
Rough-saddled Bandwing (Dipogon variegatus)
Thanks to Nick Owens for comments
Yellow-faced Bee Sp
Southwold - Suffolk
Aphids on Cardoon (Cynaria cardunculus)
Aphids on Tree Lupin
Lupin Aphid (Macrosiphum albifrons)
Megachile Sp
♂︎
♀︎
Pantaloon Bee (Dasypoda hirtirpes)
Pellitory-of-the-wall (Parietaria judaica)
Prickly Lettuce (Latuca serriola)
Mugwort Aphids (Macrosiphoniella artemisiae) on Mugwort (Artemesia vulgaris)
Darsham Marsh - Suffolk
Chrysogaster solstitialis
Digger Wasp - Lindenius panzeri
Froghopper Sp?
Marsh Valerian (Valeriana dioica)
Amber Snail (Succinea putris)
Willowherb Sp
Heliophanus flavipes/cupreus
Opilio canestrinii
A particularly dark individual
Helophilus pendulus
Fly Sp
Eristalis Sp
Eristalis horticola ♀︎
Bugs?
The lower one
Common Flower Bug (Anthocorus nemorum)?
Cranefly Sp
Great Yarmouth
Ray's Knotgrass / Sharp-fruited Knotgrass (Polygonum oxyspermum subsp raii)
Buttle's Marsh
Mixed ditch edge 
Large Thistle Aphid (Uroleucon cirsii)
Water Plaintain (Alisma plantago)?
Water Fern (Azolla filiculoides)
Lesser Water-parsnip (Berula erecta)
Brookweed (Samolus valerandii)
Branched Bur-reed (Sparganium erectum)
For comparison
A ditch community
An excellent dead tree in the landscape.
Exuvia
Frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus ranae)
Floating Sweet Grass (Glyceria fluitans)
Greater Pond Sedge (Carex riparia)
Thumb print shape of the ligule and the arrangement and length of the cells.
False Fox-sedge (Carex otrubae)
Konik Ponies
River Water Crowfoot (Ranunculus fluitans)
The leaves are longer than the internodes.
Lesser Bulrush / Reedmace (Typha angustifolia)
Narrow-leaved Water-dropwort (Oenanthe silaifolia)
Nutall's Water Weed (Elodea nuttalli)
Tubular Water-dropwort (Oenanthe fistulosa)
Cyperus Sedge (Carex pseudocyperus)
Shining Pondweed (Potamogeton lucens)
Red Bartsia (Odontites vernus)
Red-eyed Damselfly (Erythromma viridulum)
Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata)
Greater Water Parsnip (Sium latifolium)
Common Club-rush (Schoenoplectus lacustris)
Tiger Hoverfly (Helophilus pendulus)
Bristle Club-rush (Isolepis setacea)
Water Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile)
Thin walled hollow stems
Hanworth
Wood-carving Leafcutter Bee (Megachile ligneseca)
Pantaloon Bee ♂︎ (Dasypoda hirtirpes)
Ruby-tailed Wasp
Chrysis ignata group
Small Scissor Bee ♂︎ (Chelostoma campanularum)
Stones & Lichen
A Day
of
Stones & Lichen
Tim Holt-Wilson & Rob Yaxley
Wickhampton & Limpenhoe Churches
Lichen
from
Limpenhoe Church
Ramshorn Bagworm (Luffia lapidella)
A wingless female reproducing parthenogenetically
Caloplaca flavescens
?
Lecanora campestris
Often circular colonies. Apothecia red-dark brown
Fruticose Lichen
Ramalina fastigiata
Green when wet turning to grey as it dries.
Branches irregularly shaped, ending in flattened fruits which look like a fanfare of mini trumpets.
?
Lecidella elaeochroma
Common on smooth barked trees
Porpidia tuberculosa
Myriolecis crenellata
Myriolecis crenellata
Candelariella vitellina
Leconora campestris most likley
Protoparmeliopsis muralis
Trapelia coarctata
Acarospora versicolor
Verrucaria nigrescens
Candelariella vitellina
Lichen
from
Wickhampton Church
Dirina massiliensis
Typically rounded thallus with a delimited margin.
This image was higher on the wall and the lichen looks well defined.
This image was of the lichen lower on the wall. it looks less well defined as if there is wash covering it.
Leconora sulphurea
?
Caloplaca aurantica
Distinguished by the flattened lobes at the edges of the lichen growth.
Also showing green patches where the algal layer has been exposed presumably by grazing?
Toninia aromatica
Grey and lumpy with a hint of green, studded with black, irregular shaped apothecia
Myriolecis crenulata
The thallus is usually not visible on this lichen.
Seems to present as isolated apothecia, with white cracked margins.
Myriolecis crenulata PDF
from
British Lichen Society
Another Myriolecis Sp
This time
Myriolecis albescens. 
Caloplaca saxicola (Yellow)
The isolated grey apothecia surrounding the C saxicola is another Myriolecis sp
Myriolecis dispersa
The apothecia are much smaller and closed up
Myriolecis PDF
from
British Lichen Society
Diploica canescens probably
Caloplaca ruderum
Lecanora antiqua
Thallus absent but apothcai clustered together.
?
A Script Lichen often found on the North Wall of a Church
in this case
Arthonia calcarea
Hanworth
Greater Knapweed (Centauria scabiosa)
♂︎
♀︎s
Wood-carving Leafcutter Bee - (Megachile ligniseca)
How Hill
Cowbane (Cicuta virosa)
Sp? on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Might be the work of Caloptilla elongella or some other moth but really need to see what's inside.
Alder Tongue (Taphrina aldi)
A fungal plant pathogen that produces chemically induced distortion of female catkins
Sp? on Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Mines of the Fly (Agromyza alnivora)
Ferruginous Bee-grabber (Sicus ferrugneus)
A darkling beetle Diaperis boleti
Carabus granulatus
Willow Tarspot (Rhytisma salicinum)
Small yellow disco on Bracken and the black dots are something else.
To be confirmed
This was found to be Hyaloscypha flaveola
The black dots are
Mycospaerella pteridis
Thanks to SW
Pale Brittlestem (Candolleomyces candolleanus)
Rust? on ?
Ustilago striiformis on Purple Small-reed (Calamogrostis canescens)
Five-spot Burnet (Zygaena trifolii) with very pale spots
Oak Bush Cricket? (Meconema thalassinum)
Caddisfly Sp?
Common Maze Gill (Datronia mollis)
Cranefly Sp?
Achyrolimonia decemmaculata
Thanks to SW
Deer Fly Sp?
After some discussion this turned out to be
Square-spot Deerfly (Chrysops viduatus)
Mid-tibia is pale. Hind tibia is dark
&
the lower image gives a clear indication
of the yellow side of the abdomen
Chrysops Id Guide from the Dipterists Forum
Fungus attacked Cranefly
Marsh Cranefly (Tipula oleracea) attacked by the fungus Entomophaga tipulae
Neoerysiphe geranii
Golden Crust Fungus (Botryobasidium aureum)
Green Colonel (Oplodontha viridula)
Fiscidea lightfootii
Not the best of images but the second image clearly shows the UV reaction of this particular Lichen
Green Leafy Lichen ?
Cladonia conicraea
Leiobunum rotundum
Helophilus hybridus ♂︎ ?
A Hop Mildew (Podosphaera macularis)
Rough-leaved Hydrangea (Hydrangea aspera)
Hyphomyctes Sp?
The Cypress Knee
Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distichum)
Despite many theories it is still not known why the trees have knees.
Lecanora sulphurea with Lecanora pannonica
Tephromela atra
Birch Catkin Bug (Kleidocerys resedae)?
Lichenicolous fungi on Physcia adscendens
Zyzygomyces physciacearum
from
Irish Lichens
Lichenicolous fungus (unknown)
on
Leconora hybocarpa
Peniophora limitata
Longhorn Beetle Sp
Four-banded Longhorn Beetle (Leptura quadrifasciata)
Mosquito Sp?
Mycena Sp?
Mycena corynephora - much like the commoner M tenerrima but without a basal pad.
Thanks to TL
Norfolk Hawker (Aeshna isoscles)
Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis)
Seen growing on the Royal Fern.
An early version of Bracken Map or something different?
Stewart confirmed this was something different.
Leptostroma osmundicola
Under the microscope it looked nothing like Bracken Map, pycnidia erupting through striate black patches.
Bracken Map (Rhopographus filicinus) for comparison.
Pantaloon Bee ♀︎ (Dasypoda hirtirpes) hunkering well down in an Evening Primrose (Oenanthera biennis)
A huddle of Parent Bugs (Elasmucha grisea)
Passion Flower (Passiflora caerulea)
Marsh Pennywort (Hydroctyle vulgaris) flowers
Opilio canestrinii
Hemp-agrimony Plume (Adaina microdactyla gall.
Dialonectria diatrypicola growing on Daitrype bullata
Hypoxylon howeianum
Amazing growth patterns
Remote Sedge (Carex remota)
Floating Crystalwort (Riccia fluitans)
Jointed Rush (Juncus articulatus) ?
Common Yellow Sedge (Crex demissa)
Sp?
Slime Mold Sp
Stemonitis axifera
Big Smokey Bracket (Bjerkandera fumosa)
Caucasian Wingnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia)
Southern Hawker♂︎(Aeshna cyanea) with friends??
@Migrantdragons commented these were biting midges (Forcipomyia paludis), which are quite local in Britain.
A gelatinous mass on a twig in a dyke?
Rather wonderful
Turns out to be a Freshwater Bryozoan
which may be Cristatella mucedo
but
@BrianE_Cambs is working on it. (Thank you)
Confirmed by Brian via Twitter
Stictus arundinaceae on dead Reed Stem (Phragmites australis)?
Camarasporum oreades on dead leaf - Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa)
Taphrina tosquinetii on living leaf - Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Tuberous Polypore (Polyporus tuberaster)
Velvet Rollrim (Tapinella atromentosa)
Five-banded Weevil Wasp ♀︎(Cerceris quinquefasciata)
Yellow-tail Moth (Euproctis similis)
Yukka Leafspot (Coniothyrium concentricum)?
Collared Parachute (Marasmius rotula)
Sweet Briar Marsh
Common Bent (Agrostis capillaris)
Ants relocating eggs.
Hempnettle Sp
Common Hempnettle (Galeopsis tetrahit)
in a variety of shades.
Cranefly Sp
Crosswort (Cruciata laevipes)
Common Cudweed (Filago germanica)
Devil's-bit Scabious 
Erodium/Geranium Sp?
Eyelash Fungus Sp
Reed Sweet grass (Glyceria maxima)
Reed Sweet Grass Smut probably
Ustilago filiformis
Harvestmen Sp
Opilio saxatilis ?
Swedish Whitebeam (Sorbus intermedia)
Musk Mallow (Malva moschata)
Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)
x 
Meadowsweet Rust (Triphragmium ulmariae)
Moth Sp
A White-barred Moth Species
it could be one of three Sp from Norfolk Moths
Minute Pouncewort (Myriocoleopsis minutissimum)
Frizzled Pincushion (Plenogemma phyllantha)
Marsh Woundwort (Stachy palustris)
Glandular Dog-rose (Rosa squarrosus)
Sharp-flowered Rush (Juncus acutiflorus)
Brown Sedge (Carex distichum)
Southern Crestwort (Lophocolea semiteres)
Marsh Ragwort (Jacobea aquatica)
St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
Tubular Water-dropwort (Oenanthe fistulosa)
Valerian (Valeriana officinalis)
Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi)
Water-purslane (Lythrum portula)
Greater Bird'sfoot Trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus)
Marsh Arrowgrass (Triglochin palustris)
Timothy Grass (Phleum pratense)
Marsh Cinquefoil leaf (Comarum palustris)
Hanworth
A Purple variety of Vervain (Verbena officinalis)
Small Scissor Bee / Harebell Carpenter Bee (Chelostoma campanularum)
Alderfen Broad
Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Alder Leaf Gall Mite (Eriophyes laevis)
Possibly European Alder Sawfly (Fenusa dohmii)
Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus bohemicus)?
Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)
Rolled Mine? on Silver Birch (Betula pendula)
Black-tailed Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum)
?
Hemp-agrimony (Eupatorum cannibum)
Eristalis Sp ♀︎
Possibly Eristalis tenax
Milk Parsley (Peucedanum palustre)
?
Reed Mite Gall (Steneotarsonemus phragmatidis)? on Common Reed (Phragmites australis)
From
Plant Parasites of Europe
Adult
Final instar nymph
Red-legged Shieldbug (Pentatoma rufipes)
Spotted Longhorn (Rutpela maculata)
? Birch Catkin
Spider Sp?
Aldborough
Silver Birch Aphid (Euceraphis betulae)
This one looks as if it has been attacked by a fungus but it may be a dusting of blue wax particles
Silver Birch Aphid (Euceraphis betulae)
This might be the leaf mine of Agromyza alnibetulae
Leaf edge roll?
Action on Silver Birch (Betula pendula)
Great Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum)
Smut Fungus (Ustilago avenae) infects the spikelets of Oats and in this case False Oat Grass (Arrhenatherum elatius),
