Upton Fen

UptonFen?200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Lacehopper Sp?

Very much like to find some more of these.

Forewings with brown marking at the base. Although not fully in focus it does have

a dark transverse band across the wings.

and

The commonest one is

Common Lacehopper (Cixius nervosus)

UptonFenBeetle200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenBeetle200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Grammoptera ruficornis

UptonFenBeetlePair200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Sillis ruficollis

Males large comb like antennae and the sharp hind angles on the pronotum

UptonFenBlackdot200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenBlackdot200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Popar Leaf Beetle Larvae

UptonFenBlackdot200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Shedding skin priot tp pupating?

Poplar Leaf Beetle (Chrysomela populi) Feeds on Willow and of course Poplar

from
UK Beetles


anthropodafotos.de

UptonFenBogPimpernel200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenBogPimpernel200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Bog Pimpernel (Anagallis tenella)

UptonFenBronze200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Very Bronze Fly Sp?

Long-legged Fly Sp?

UptonFenBushCrisket200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Long-winged Conehead ♂︎ Nymph (Conocephalus fuscus)

UptonFenCaddis200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenCaddis200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Caddis Fly

Glyphotaellus pellucidus ♂︎

Naturespot

UptonFenCarexSmut200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Smut on Carex riparia

Farysia theumenii

UptonFenCaught200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Dead mosquito

UptonFenCenturion200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenCenturion200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Broad Centurion (Chloromya formosa)

UptonFenClegg200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenClegg200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenClegg200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenClegg200623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Large Marsh Horsefly (Tabalus autumnalis)

UptonFenCorallae200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenCorallae200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenCorallae200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Migrant Field Syrph (Eupeodes corollae)

UptonFenCricket200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Conehead Sp?

UptonFenDamsel200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Variable Damselfly ♂︎ (Coenagrion pulchellum)

UptonFenDasy200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenDasy200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenDasy200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Broad-barred Flexwing (Dasysyrphus venustus)

UptonFenDolichopus200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Long-legged Fly

Rhaphium crassipes

UptonFenDungFly200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)

UptonFenEmpisFly200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Daggerfly Sp?

Empis livida?

UptonFenEsepulchris200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Eristalinus sepulchris

UptonFenFalseOatGrass200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenFalseOatGrass200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

False Oat grass (Arrhenatherum elatius)

UptonFenFenOrchid200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Fen Orchid (liparis loeselii)

UptonFenFlySp200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenFlySp200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Fly Sp?

UptonFenGallBedstraw200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenGallBedstraw200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Gall on Fen Bedstraw

From the

British Plant Gall Society


Possibly Geocrypta galii

from

Plant Parasites of Europe


But they neither source specifically mentions Fen Bedstraw as a host


UptonFenGallerina200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Gallerina Sp?

UptonFenGem200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenGem200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenGreenGem200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Black-horned Gem (Microchrysa polita)

UptonFenGreenDamsel200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenGreenDamsel200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Green Emerald (Lestes sponsa)

UptonFenHawker200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHawker200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Norfolk Hawker (Aeshna isoceles)

UptonFenHelophilus200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Helophilos hybridus ♀︎?

UptonFenHole200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Is this the beginning of a Cigar Gall? Or…..?

UptonFenHover??200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Hoverfly Sp?

UptonFenHover?200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover?200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME 1

Neoscia Sp

Confirmed by Facebook Hoverfly group

UptonFenHover200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-6-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHover200623-7-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenNeoasciaSp200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenNeoasciaSp200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenNeoasciaSp200623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenNeoasciaSp200623-6-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Neoscia Sp?

Roger Morris from the Facebook Hoverlfy page

"Fairly sure that's Neoascia tenur"

UptonFenHumpback200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-6-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenHumpback200623-7-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

The rather strange looking fly that causes the Cigar Galls in reeds.

Lipara lucens

UptonFenLonghorn200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Longhorn Beetle (Rutpela maculata)

UptonFenMarshThistle200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre)

UptonFenMarshViolet200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Marsh Violet / Bog Pansy) Viola palustris)

UptonFenMoth200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Moth Sp?

UptonFenMothcase200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Moth case?

UptonFenNest200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Spider Sp perhaps has brought the spikelets together

UptonFenOddthing200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

?

UptonFenPhantomCranefly200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Phantom Cranefly (Ptichoptera albimama)

UptonFenPW200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Picture Wing Fly Sp?

UptonFenPW2200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Mottled Thistle Fly (Xyphosia miliaria)

UptonFenRaggedRobin200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

White Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi)

UptonFenRoveBeetle&Prey200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Rove beetle Sp? & Spider Sp?

UptonFenRush200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Rush Sp?

Wood Rush Sp?

UptonFenRush2200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Rush Sp?

UptonFenRust200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

?

UptonFenSawfly?200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Cephus nigrinus?

UptonFenSedge200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Sedge Sp?

Common Yellow Sedge (Carex demissa)?

UptonFenSkimmer200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Black-tailed Skimmer ♂︎ ( Orthetrum cancellatum)

UptonFenSnailKiller200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenSnailKiller200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Snail Killer Fly?

Pherbina coryleti

UptonFenSnipeFly200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Chyrsopilus cristatus ♂︎

UptonFenSoldierFlySp200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Soldier Fly Sp?

No soldier flies have the muscular hind legs or the head quite so obviously spherical on a stalk.

Also the angle of the photo doesn't show the humpback nature of the fly.

Dance Fly Sp? Hybotiae Sp?

Hybos culiciformis

UptonFenSpider&Prey200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenSpider200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenSpider2200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Spider Sp?

UptonFenTscitta200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenTscitta200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Tooth-thighed Hoverfly (Tropidia scitta)

UptonFenWaterparsnip200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenWaterParsley200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Lesser Water Parsnip (Berula erecta)

UptonFenWHiteDot200623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenWHiteDot200623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenWHiteDot200623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

UptonFenWHiteDot200623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Sawfly Sp?

Tenthredopsis nassata

from

NatureSpot




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Strumpshaw Fen

StrumpshawAlderGalls080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawAlderGalls080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawAlderGalls080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawAlderGalls080623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawAlderGalls080623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawAlderGalls080623-6-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Galls on Alder (Alnus gluinosa) Leaves

StrumpshawAntsAphidsPurgingBuckthorn080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawAntsAphidsPurgingBuckthorn080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Possibly Waxy Buckthorn Aphids (Aphis commensalis) on Purging Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)

but there are known to be fifteen species of aphids that live on Purging Buckthorn

StrumpshawAphid080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawAphid080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Aphid Sp

StrumpshawBee080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawBee080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawBee080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Common Green Furrow Bee (Lasioglossum morio)

StrumpshawBeetle080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Beetle Sp?

Grammoptera ruficornis

StrumpshawBeetle2080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Beetle Sp?

StrumpshawChoke080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Choke Fungus (Epichloe typhina)

StrumpshawCrampBallWeevil080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawCrampBallWeevil080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawCrampBallWeevil080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawCrampBallWeevil080623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Cramp - ball Fungus Weevil (Platyrhinus resinosus)

The larva develop inside Cramp-balls.

StrumpshawCranefly080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Cranefly Sp?

Tipula fulvipennis?

StrumpshawCranefly2080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Cranefly Sp?

Nephrotoma flavipalpis perhaps?

StrumpshawCraneFly3080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawCraneFly3080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Cranefly Sp?

Nigrotipula nigra

StrumpshawCristatus080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

♂︎

StrumpshawCristatus080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawCristatus080623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

♀︎

Snipe Fly Sp?

Chrysopilus cristatus

StrumpshawCsolstitialis080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

♂︎

StrumpshawCsolstitialis080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME


StrumpshawCsolstitialis080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

♀︎

Chrysogaster solstitialis

Note the markedly purple colouration of the thorax

StrumpshawEluniger080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Eupeodes luniger

Not quite

Gill Judd commented

I think it is E. corollae, as the yellow bands reach the margins of the abdomen.

StrumpshawFly2080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Fly Sp?

StrumpshawFlySp080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Fly Sp?

StrumpshawFungussed080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Parastised by a fungus.

StrumpshawGall&Rust080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Rust & Galls on a willow (Salix Sp?)

StrumpshawGoldenLonghorn080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle (Aganpathis villosoviridescens)

StrumpshawHorseFly080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawHorseFly080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawHorseFly080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawHorseFly080623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Horsefly Sp?

Hairy-legged Horsefly (Hybomitra bimaculata)

StrumpshawHover080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawHover080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawHover080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Eristalis pertinax ♂︎

StrumpshawInflata080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Orange-belted Plumehorn (Volucella inflata)

StrumpshawIntricaria080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawIntricaria080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawIntricaria080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Eristalis intricaria

StrumpshawNymph080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Seven Spot Ladybird Larva (Coccinella semipunctata)

StrumpshawLadybirds080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Harlequin (Harmonia axyridis - succinea)

StrumpshawLarver080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME



StrumpshawLimetallina080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Lejogaster metallina

StrumpshawLizard080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME


StrumpshawLizard080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Common Lizard (Zootoca viviparia) A nice green variety.

StrumpshawLongHorn080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Yellow-barred Longhorn (Nemphora degeerella)

StrumpshawMalachite080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Malachite Beetle (Malachius bipustulatus)

StrumpshawMarshClick080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawMarshClick080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawMarshClick080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Marsh Click Beetle (Actinicerus sjaelandicus)

StrumpshawMcompositarum080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawMcompositarum080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawMcompositarum080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawMcompositarum080623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawMcompositarum080623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Melangyna compositarum

Thorax dull

StrumpshawMosquito080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawMosquito080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Mosquito Sp?

StrumpshawMoth080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Moth Sp?

StrumpshawNettleWeevil080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Nettle Weevil (Phyllobeus pomaceus)

StrumpshawPaleFly080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

?

This is probably a young Cranefly (Limonia Sp) that has yet to colour up.

Thanks to NNNS via Twitter.

StrumpshawParsley080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Fly Sp? on ?

StrumpshawPuccinia080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Puccinia rust on willow.

StrumpshawPurgingBuckthorn080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawPurgingBuckthorn080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawPurgingBuckthorn080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawPurgingBuckthorn080623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawPurgingBuckthorn080623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Purging Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)

StrumpshawRsplendens080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawRsplendens080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

♂︎

Riponensia splendens

StrumpshawSallowGall080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Gall Sp? on Willow

StrumpshawSallowRust080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Rust Sp on Willow

StrumpshawSawfly080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawSawfly080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawSawfly080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Sawfly Sp?

Tenthredo mesomela

StrumpshawShortHorn080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Moth Sp?

StrumpshawSnail080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawSnail080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Snail Sp?

Kentish Snail (Monacha cantiana)

StrumpshawSnipeFly080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawSnipeFly080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawSnipeFly080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Snipe Fly Sp?

Rhagio tringarius

StrumpshawSoldierFly080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

?

StrumpshawSpider080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Spider Sp?

StrumpshawSpider2080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Spider Sp?

StrumpshawThistleAphid080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawThistleAphid080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Aphids on Thistle

Possiby Black spindle-thistle Aphid (Aphis fabae cirsiiacanthoidis)

StrumpshawTropidiascitta080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawTropidiascitta080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawTropidiascitta080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawTropidiascitta080623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Mating Pair

StrumpshawTropidiascitta080623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawTropidiascitta080623-6-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawTropidiascitta080623-7-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Tooth-thighed Hoverfly (Tropidiua scita)

StrumpshawVopulus080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawVopulus080623-2-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawVopulus080623-3-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawVopulus080623-4-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

StrumpshawVopulus080623-5-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Guelder Rose (Viburnum opulus)

Viburnum Leaf Beetle having a jolly good go at the Viburnum.

Thanks to NNNS via Twitter

StrumpshawWaspBeetle080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Wasp Beetle (Clytus arietis)

StrumpshawWoundwortSB080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Woundwort Shield Bug (Eysarcoris venustissimus)

StrumpshawSpeckledWood080623-1-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME

Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria)

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