A walk around the silt lagoons this afternoon revealed a wide variety of insects feeding or resting on oxeye daisy, or Leucanthemum vulgare....
I came across Bombus hypnorum first, or the tree bumblebee. This species nests in holes in trees and is a relatively recent addition to the British fauna, being first discovered in 2001.
Oedemera lurida is a common member of the beetle Family Oedemeridae, or the flower beetles. The male of it's close relation, Oedemera nobilis has massively swollen femora (upper leg segments).
The micro-moth Anthophila fabriciana is also known as the Nettle-tap, one of the few micro-moths with an English name. It's larval foodplant, as you might expect, is nettle, Urtica dioica.
Another beetle, this time a member of the Family Cerambycidae, or the longhorn beetles. This is one of the smaller members, Grammoptera ruficornis. The smaller beetle in the picture is a member of the Family Scraptiidae, sometimes known as the false flower beetles. This specimen would take more thorough examination to identify the exact species.
This is a sawfly of the Genus Rhogogaster. There are several very similar species in this Genus, all coloured green and black. The adult sawflies are predatory, feeding on other invertebrates.
And finally....the yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria and as the name suggests, they are indeed associated with dung. The imago flies feed on other insects close to, on on dung, whereas the larvae feed within the dung itself.