Bitten by the Bug

By the looks of it I can't get enough of them. I'm having a bit of a Bug time at the moment and this time it was a walk through Nythe Wood and around the pool, which might hasten to add, is looking very clean. It was looking pretty bad and after I contacted the Environment Agency, they sent their field team out to clean it up. So a big thank you to Shaun Shackleford the area manager and his Field team headed by Steve, you did a brilliant job.

The bugs, yep a lot of them again and unsurprisingly most of them of the umbellifers. The main species here seem to be Tapered Droneflies and Dance flies.

Here are a few images of what I came across:

Tapered Dronefly

Dance fly, Empis opaca

Hoverfly, Volucella pellucens. Known also as the Large Pied-hoverfly or  Pellucid fly

This is the Hoverfly, Myathropa florea........

...........it is also known as the Dead Head Fly, or Death's Head Fly......

.............and gets this common name from the marking on its thorax which can resemble a human face or death mask.

Two Common Nettle-tap Moths and a plant bug, Grypocoris stysi

Grypocoris stysi

And for the third day running, this bee, fly, hoverfly which has me baffled.

Any ideas most welcome.

A Sawfly, quite small and one for me to ID later.

A Red-headed Cardinal Beetle, a predatory beetle which feeds on other insects flying around the flowers on which they are perched.

 

A Green Sawfly, Rhogogaster viridis

A male Banded Demoiselle

Insects recorded:
Tapered Dronefly, Eristalis pertinax
Dance fly, Empis opaca
Hoverfly, Volucella pellucens.
Hoverfly, Myathropa florea.
Common Nettle-tap Moth
Plant bug, Grypocoris stysi
Red-headed Cardinal Beetle, Pyrochroa serraticornis
Green Sawfly, Rhogogaster viridis
Banded Demoiselle, Calopteryx splendens