Gallery including bees and wasps, flies and grasshoppers
Field Grasshopper nymph stage 4
Common Green Grasshopper, Omocestus viridulus
Meadow grasshopper nymph (Chorthippus parallelus)
Meadow grasshopper nymph (Chorthippus parallelus)
Green drake mayfly (Ephemera danica)
Wasp with prey
Dagger Fly – Empis tessellata (Empididae) with prey
Dagger Fly – Empis tessellata (Empididae)
Male Dagger Fly – empis tessellata (Empididae)
Dagger Fly – Empis tessellata (Empididae)
Dagger Fly – Empis tessellata (Empididae)
Prey of Empis tessellata
Female Dagger Fly – Empis tessellata (Empididae)
Female Dagger Fly – Empis tessellata (Empididae)
Dagger Fly – Empis tessellata (Empididae)
Dagger Fly – Empis tessellata (Empididae)
Hoverfly in flight
Scathophaga dung fly
Scathophaga dung fly
Yellow Dung Fly – Scathophaga stercoraria – male
Yellow dung fly scathophaga stercoraria
Scathophaga dung fly
Calobata Petronella, Micropezidae,
stilt legged fly
Calobata Petronella, Micropezidae,
stilt legged fly
Scorpion Fly, Panorpa communis
Scorpion Fly, Panorpa communis
Scorpion fly
Scorpion Fly, Panorpa communis
Marsh Fly, Dryomyza anilis (Dryomyzidae)
Marsh Fly, Dryomyza anilis (Dryomyzidae)
Root Maggot Fly
Root Maggot Fly, Delia pluvialis
Root Maggot Fly, Delia pluvialis
Eye of sarcophaga fly
Sarcophaga fly blowing red bubble
Sarcophaga flies mating
Sawfly (? Tenthredo livida, female)
Lacewing
Lacewing
Greenbottle fly
Dagger Fly (empis livida)
Wasp on Umbellifer
Bumble Bee on Umbellifer
Carder Bee
Hover Fly, Volucella pellucens, Male
Syrphid hoverfly, ? syrphus ribesii
Epistrophe-grossulariae
Marmalade Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus
Useful links to identifying insects
error: © Christine Widdall - Kirklees Cousins
