Santon Downham

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Bark Fly Sp? (Psocoptera Sp)?

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Broad-leaved Helleborine (Epipacatis helleborine)

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Sharp-tailed Bee ♀︎ (Coelioxys Sp?)

Vanna thought this was C rufescens and that was confirmed by Tim Strudwick.

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Pantaloon Bee ♂︎(DasyPoda hirtirpes)

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Tessellated Bee Burglar (Miltogramma germari)

An extraordinary fly (One of two British Species of 'Miltogramma' Shadow Flies) that deposits live larva into the nests of bees such as
Pantaloon Bee ( Dasypoda hirterpes), Silvery Leafcutter Bees (Magachile leachella) & possibly Green-eyed Flower Bee (Anthophora bimaculata)


The second Miltogrmma Sp is Miltogramma punctata, which parasatises at least five Colletes Sp in the British Isles

both snippets

From

Solitary Bees - Ted Benton & Nick Owens.

Pg 312

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The lower image shows a freshly emerging fly whose wings have not fully inflated.

Milotgramma punctata at a Sea Aster Mining Bee (Colletes halophilus) aggregation at Gramborough Hill

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Fly Sp?

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Fly Sp?

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♀︎

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♂︎

Cistogaster globosa Female above male below.

The most incredible fly. A lustrous, dumpy tachnid first found in 1954 on the hill above my childhood home.- Portsdown Hill

It's host is the Bishop's-mitre Shieldbug

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Green-eyed Flower Bee (Anthophora bimaculata)

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Hoary Cinquefoil (Potentilla argentea)

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Chrysid or Ruby-tailed Wasp ♂︎ ?

Hedychrum Sp?

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Jumping Spider Sp?

Salticus scenicus ♀︎?

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Perennial Knawel (Scleranthus perennis)

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Lichen Sp

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Red Longhorn Beetle (Stictoleptura rubra)

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Stenurella melanura♀︎

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The most exquisite little creature on the walls of the Church

Bristly Millipede (Polyxenus lagurus)

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Variable Nomad Bee (Nomada zonata ♀︎)

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Gooden's Nomad Bee (Nomada goodeniana) ?

Vanna Bartlett commented

Your Nomada goodeniana isn't (bit late in the year for it).
I think it is male N. fulvicornis but can't be absolutely sure from your 2 photos.

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Breckland Pansy (Viola tricolor ssp curtsii)

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Small Shaggy Bee (Panurgus calcaratus)

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Ruddy Darter pair mating (Sympetrum sanguineum)

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Spider Sp?

Neoscona adaianta

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Sand Spurry (Spergula rubra)

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Dark Mullein (Verbascum nigrum)

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Mogolones geogrpahicus the root weevil of Echium vulgare.

In Australia a variety of Echium known as Patterson's Curse (Echium plantagineum) or Jane Weed covers vaste swathes of
land in Western Australia after being grown and then escaping from a garden owned by the Paterson Family in 1880. (or so the story goes)

This species of root weevil is used for biological control of Paterson's Curse

In Australia it is capable of becoming dormant to escape the summer heat.
The adult weevils remaining dormant in the soil until the autumn rains come, which is useful for late breaks of Paterson's Curse.


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Wolf's Milk (Lycogala epipdendrum)

Grateful thanks to Vanna Bartlett & Tim Strudwick for help with ids.

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