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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
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)