Flying Insects

This is a male. Males are territorial, perching in bankside plants and trees.

Numerous other common names include; mosquito hawk, mosquito eater (or skeeter eater), wolf mosquito, gallinipper, gollywhopper, daddy longlegs.
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A European species of soldier fly. The thorax is a shiny metallic green, the veins in the wing quite are quite distinct and two white spots on the face.The...More

Sunfly / hoverfly fighting off a spider, it did get away by flapping furiously, hard to watch the battle though!

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Not the sharpest photo but wanted to show the intriguing pink coloured pollen sacs!

Female

The carrot flower attracts many insects includiing, flies, hoverflies and bees

Parasitic and predatory arthropods often prevent plants from being severely damaged by killing herbivores as they feed on the plants. This is a leaf of...More

PHOTO 2 of 2: This is the same (what I believe to be Queen) Buff-tailed Bumblebee I posted prior to this photo, just 24 hours later she looked like this,...More

PHOTO 1 of 2: I believe this to be a Queen but do know this species can be large anyway!, She stayed on this sunflower for a long time. At first I thought...More

This could be a housefly but just can't identify accurately enough, the forehead is an orange colour if this helps to identify. It is on a carrot...More

This Noon Fly (Black & Orange Fly) is cleaning itself on the outside of our compost toilet at Shillingford Organics!

Solitary Bees fall into four main groups, miners, carpenters, masons and leafcutters.

This leafcutter bee photograph was taking on the organic...More