We’ll start with a very pedestrian photo (if you don’t mind getting your feet wet) of the ford at Duxford.
And some people in a field, bordered with blue flowers – chicory it seems, and clover underfoot
Common chicory (Cichorium intybus). Chicory is grown as a forage crop for livestock.
Trifolium pratense, the red clover
What a beautiful insect this is: Oedemera nobilis, also known as the false oil beetle, thick-legged flower beetle or swollen-thighed beetle, is a beetle in the family Oedemeridae, a common species in Western Europe, including the south of England.
And another one
Some flies now, keep scrolling if they don’t appeal, there’s bonking and butterflies to come.
Not just any old fly, but an Eriothrix: a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. However, Larvae of this species are parasitic, developing inside the larvae of moths.
Google was no help with this fellow, but look at the proboscis. At the other end, is that an extra bit of abdomen, or a big poo?
Rhagonycha fulva, the common red soldier beetle, popularly known in England as the hogweed bonking beetle. This time on grass in the middle of the path (no shame) and not on hogweed.
Now the butterflies. So many today, and so few settling.
Gatekeeper
Large white
Small white
Ringlet
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