Curculio venosus - many thanks to Trevor Pendleton for the ID
I think this is a female Chironomus plumosus ?
A mayfly - is it Cloeon dipterum
I think this is Larinioides sclopetarius
A male Harpocera thoracica
I think this a Cantharis rufa - can't see any black on the legs though, but pronotum appears wrong shape for Rhagonycha translucida.
This year I've got two pairs of Blackbird nesting in the garden - one on the front in a small conifer and one on the back in a small flowering shrub (can't remember what it's called). Sadly though the front pair which was more advance was predated this morning - no idea what by and it would be easy to blame the local moggies but we've had a tenacious Grey Squirrel knocking about lately and also ever-present Magpies. Hopefully the next brood will fair better, and the back pair manage to hang on to theirs.
Garden traps out tonight - great expectations. Anything will better than the three blanks and one Brimstone from the last four outings!
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What the hell is that in the first two images Skev???? Never seen anything like it!
Neither had I before yesterday Paul - a bit weird looking I agree! This one is a male; the female's rostrum (long snouty thing) is twice as long which they use to bore into acorns or hazlenuts before laying an egg.
These macro images are stunning Skev. I will be quizzing you about your photographic kit when we pan-list this Saturday!
Thanks Steve - the kit is nothing fancy or expensive I can assure you! Looking forward to the meet-up - my brain will probably be fried by Saturday.
I'd like to be able to get photos like this of insects too - will also be quizzing you!
The cantharid is either Cantharis rufa or C. figurata but I wouldn't like to say which.
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