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Foulden Common

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25 Drops of rain only.

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Pineapple Weed (Matricaria discoidea)

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Sphaeridium scarabaeoides in the cow dung.

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Carline Thistle (Carlina acaulis)

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Clustered Bellflower (Campanula glomerata)


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Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)

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Meadow Grasshopper ♂︎ (Chorthippus parallelus)

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Common Green Bottle Fly (Lucilla sericata)

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Gate Keeper (pyronis tithonus)

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Goat's Beard (Tragopogon pratensis)

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Harvestmen of Britain & Ireland

Even after looking though this I was none the wiser.

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Strip-winged Drone Fly (Eristalis horticola)

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? The same as above?

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I forget? I remember after Tony's e-mail. Dusky Sallow (Eromobia ochroleuca)

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Robber Fly No orange on the legs and seems to be greyer. Fan-bristled Robber Fly (Dysmachus trigonus)?

Seems to chime with this one here.

Not quite

The yellow tab at the end of the abdomen is the give away.

Vanna Barlett responded via twitter.

Looks like a male Eutolmus rufibarbis Golden-tabbed Robber Fly

- you can just seethe golden tab on the underside towards the end of the abdomen.

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Robber Fly Machismus atricapillus ? This one shows orange on the legs. But not quite as much as the pictures here. Seems to be lighter colour generally.

This turned out to be the same species.

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Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)

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Small Scabious (Scabiosa columbaria)

The associated Small Scabious Mining Bee was also seen.

But one plant had this gall like growth at the base of the plant with a flower head that had numerous extra flower heads extending from the main flower.

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Small Scabious with lots of extra flower heads.

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Stemless Thistle (Cirsium acaule)

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Syritta pipiens

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Burnet-saxifrage (Pimpimella saxifrage)

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Not the best of photos just a record.

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Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi)

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Forgotten?

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