All about Insects 2020

Unknown said:

The earlier one looks like a male Emerald Damselfly

And there you have proven my case Tony....how can it be an EMERALD damsel, when it is most definitively BLUE??!! …. And, I've just realised....how can it be a DAMSELfly, if it's male??

You win, PB. I've no fight left in me. On the other hand if she wants to be a male it's her right to choose. 

Oh now don't start that malarkey... "I want to be called Loretta, I want the right to have babies"
"But you haven't got a womb"
"Don't you oppress me"
"Where's the foetus going to gestate, in a cardboard box?"
"Even if you can't have babies, which Is nobody's fault, not even the Romans, we shall fight for your RIGHT to have babies"
Paraphrasing Python!

..must be time for your meds again PB

It's the heat Linda. We are all getting a bit hysterical and losing our marbles. Valium anyone?

I'm with Linda - mid 20's, sometimes overcast, a little breeze, nothing too problematical. I haven't even had to break out the shorts ... which is probably for the best!!!

It was difficult to ignore this Hoverfly, Eristalis Nemorum, posing perfectly on sunny Ragwort against a nice, dark background

And one of the easiest hoverflies to ID, sometimes called the Great Pied Hoverfly, Volucella Pellucens,

This is not a wasp, but a parasitic fly, Conops Quadrifasciatus, in this case, a female 

More awesomeness Nige!

Great stuff Nige