21c at its peak, meant hoverflies were not to bothered about the heat, so I recorded 28 species, with the best being Chrysotoxum cautum, Dasysyrphus albostriatus and Riponnensia splendens.
Other insects included Red Admiral [butterfly], Pammene aurana [moth], Small Fleck-winged Snipe-fly, Phasia hemiptera, Broad Centurion [all flies], Rutpela maculata [longhorn beetle] and Tree Bumblebee amongst the usual stuff.
A Garden Warbler singing and moving about in the trees was a nice surprise as was the Green Woodpecker that nearly took my head off in panic flight near the woods.
Dasysyrphus albostriatus
Epistrophe grossulariae
Leucozona glaucia
Riponnensia splendens
Small Fleck-winged Snipe-fly
Speckled Wood
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