Curlew Sandpiper in flight with three Dunlin (Calidris alpina)















Juvenile Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)





Dunlin (Calidris alpina)







Satellite Fly (Miltogramma punctata) attending the Sea Aster Mining Bees















Miniature forests of Sea Sandwort (Honckenya peploides) setting their face to the wind and sand.



One of the green metallic Lasioglossum Sp






































A brilliant treat to see the two juvenile Little Stint (Calidris minuta) so close.

















Frosted Orache (Atriplex laciniata)











Sea Aster Mining Bee ♂︎ (Colletes halophilus)





Sea Rocket (Cakile maritimum)





Female







Juvenile

Ruff (Calidris pugnax)









Sea Aster Mining Bee ♀︎ (Colletes halophilus)







Sand Hopper (Talitrus saltator)









Hairy Sand Wasp (Padolonia hirsuta)



Sea Beet (Beta vulgaris)













Spider Sp ?

Tags: Landscape, LittleStint, LasioglossumSp, SeaSandwort, FlySp, Dunlin, Ruff, SandHopper, HairySandWasp, SeaBeet, SeaAsterMiningBee, PantaloonBee, FrostedOrache, CurlewSandpiper

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?

Tags: SickleMedick, PantaloonBee, LesserMeadowRue, BlueFleabane, CommonFieldGrasshopper, BurrMedick, FlySp, GrassSp, FieldBindweed, BronzeShieldbug

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)

Tags: LupinAphid, CardoonAphid, MegachileSp, PricklyLettuce, PantaloonBee, Pellitoryofthewall, MugwortAphid

Wood-carving Leafcutter Bee (Megachile ligneseca)





Pantaloon Bee ♂︎ (Dasypoda hirtirpes)











Ruby-tailed Wasp

Chrysis ignata group



Small Scissor Bee ♂︎ (Chelostoma campanularum)

Tags: MegachileSp, PantaloonBee, Ruby-tailedWaspSp, SmallScissorBee

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)

Tags: CollaredParachute, Dialonectriadiatrypicola, Yellow-tailMoth, SplayedDeer, CommonYellowSedge, Five-bandedWeevilWasp, VelvetRollrim, Diaperisboleti, WillowTarspot, MycenaSp, MosquitoSp, Four-bandedLonghornBeetle, SwampCypress, BrackenMap, RoyalFern, NorfolkHawker, FreshwaterSponge, SouthernHawker, CaucasianWingnut, BigSmokeyBracket, SlimeMoldSp, FloatingCrystalwort, RemoteSedge, MarshPennywort, PassionFlower, ParentBug, PantaloonBee, TuberousPolypore, Taphrinatosquinetii, Camarasporumoreades, Stictusarundinaceae, Hypoxylonhoweianum, CommonYellowSedge