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!
