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Blushing Bracket (Daedaleopsis confragosa)
Conifer Blueing Bracket (Postia caesia)
Clustered Toughshank (Gymnopus confluens)?
Magenta Rustgill (Gymnopilus dilipis)
Spotted Toughshank (Rhodocollybia maculata(
Chinese Fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata)
Filostictus cunninghamia
Caterpillar Fungus (Cordyceps militaris)
Striate Earthstar (Geastrum striatrum))
Bleeding Bonnet (Mycena sanguinolenta)
Western Hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)
SpIder sack hidden in amongst the eaves.
Pirate Spider Sp - Ero Sp
This group of spiders are specialised spider killers
From iNaturalist
A spectacular Western Conifer Seed Bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis)
Native to the USA. Introduced into Europe in 1999
From DEFRA
Brown Parasol (Chlorophyllum brunneum)
The very obvious bulbous base is a key feature.
Hare'sfoot Inkcap (Coprinopsis lagopus)
Awaiting confirmation
A small Longhorn Beetle but not the rare one
Lesser Thorn-tipped Longhorn Beetle (Pogonocherus hispidus)
Sweetgum Sp with large rounded leaves reminiscent of Fig leaves
The fruit of Sweetgum (Liquidambar acalycina))
Black Mulberry (Morus nigra)
?
The Big White
To be confirmed?
A white form of Clouded Funnel (Clitocybe nebularia var alba)
Chaetocalathus craterellus
Glazed Cup Fungus (Humaria hemispherica)
Coprinopsis Sp?
Tubaria Sp
Orange Bonnet (Mycena acicula) 
Willow Emerald (Chalcoletes viridis)
Spider Sp
Scurfy Twiglet (Tubaria furfuracia)
Erysyphe ulmi
From Plant Parasites of Europe
Sycamore White Spot (Cristulariella depraedans)
From Gower Wildlife
Peniophora proxima on Box (Buxus sempervirens)
Red Horse Chestnut fruit (Aesculus x carnea)
The cleistothecium are very visible on the back of the leaf in the above image.
Black spots with white fringe hairs
Less obvious on the front of the leaf
Cleistothecium X400 This one has ruptured and the asci can just about be seen
Hooked tips to the appendages
Erisyphe flexuosa on Red Horse Chestnut
From Plant Parasites of Europe
Bramble Sp ?
Hawthorn Shield Bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale)
Wellingtonia (Sequoiadendron gianteum)
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
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