• Car Park Flies
    Summer is often more about the invertebrates at Rainham Marshes than the birds and a little walk in the sunshine around the car park produced some cracking hoverflies. They seem particularly keen on the...
  • Spiders and Flies
    Unlike yesterday where we cancelled the Insect Afternoon due to the inclement weather and lack of insect life; this morning was fantastic with hawkers and darters once again on the wing and five species...
  • Dance of the Flies
    And continuing the invert theme I now give you one of my favourite little flies - Poecilobothrus nobilitatus - with his pied wings and wing-waving dance off in the fly equivilent of a Black Grouse lek...
  • Flytastic
    Monday offered up an opportunity to have a wander around the woodland and so with suitable cover I persuaded Annie to join me for some quality grubbing in the sunshine before the weather closed back in...
  • I see saw flies
    There are many species of Sawflies in the UK and we have quite a few of these out on the reserve. They are related to wasps and bees and are quite harmless to us. They get their name from the saw-like...