Insects and Spiders

Horse Fly be liek.

Gimmie yo biek.

Parent Bug (Elasmucha grisea) nymph rocking a natty set of threads in the autumn sunshine yesterday

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I love the parent bug and the dragonfly pics!

A speckled bush cricket came into the house yesterday, so I took it outside where the light was better.

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Jumping on rocks on a beach off NE coast

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This shiny little fella on the floor at work back in the summer.

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More from the beach

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Devils Coach Horse (found off search engine)
A feisty individual

Had an excellent day at an organic farm today, where I saw probably the biggest bumblebee I've ever seen, and a European Hornet. Neither stayed still enough for pics, but this Hoverfly was a bit more accommodating. Not sure quite what species it is?

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Nice photo. It's a female (eyes are separated at the top of the head - males would be touching) hoverfly. The abdomen pattern makes it a species in the genus Eupeodes and because it has a small upside down dark 'Y-shaped' mark between it's eyes and it's antennae it makes it almost certainly a female Eupeodes luniger aka a Black-tailed Aphid Eater https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/210336-Eupeodes-luniger.

Nice photo of a great caterpillar. I love the irregular black reticulation on it's sides and just below the lower yellow stripe.

Cool, ta!

May Bug Cockchafer larvae I found in my garden yesterday

Fly in my garden last year

Another caterpillar

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My allotment has hundreds of these spiders on it, they seem to live on the ground. Anyone know what they are.

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not sure which exact species but looks to be a Lycosid, so a wolf or fox spider

Oo thanks. There's so many of them. You take a step and they all scurry off.

Shiny

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Parts off my garden of full of them as well, busy little things.

A hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta) in the late afternoon sun today.

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Love a rose chaffer

Darters busy laying eggs today

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Caught a nice European Hornet Queen in the kitchen at work today. Checked it wasn’t the invasive Asian one and let it go. Impressively big.

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Grubs!

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Also, a big bee.

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