First time we've had the tiny Many Plumed Moth in our house - what a little beauty BC Upper Thames Zoe Randle BBO Wildlife Trust

2 flies seen along the Chilswell Valley, nr Oxford yesterday - a Stilt-legged Fly Neria cibaria (left) & female Murky-legged Legionnaire Beris chalybata #FliesofBritainandIreland BBO Wildlife Trust Wild Oxfordshire Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Dr Erica McAlister Dipterists Forum

Just starting laying out the 'dollies' Dolichopodidae pages for our Guide to #FliesofBritainandIreland Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Dr Erica McAlister Many are found in wet habitats like Semaphore Flies (left) but some are found on trees like Neurigona quadrifasciata (right)

#FliesofBritainandIreland 2 fabulous flies from BBO Wildlife Trust's Dry Sandford Pit this morning - A Downlooker Snipefly (Rhagio scolopaceus) that refused to look down & a Sap Hoverfly (Brachyopa sp.) with grey humeri, but what species? Steven Falk Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Dr Erica McAlister

Spring greens - the hidden gem of the Chilswell Valley, just to the west of Oxford is a great place to visit in spring. With its mixture of limestone grassland, woodland and fen its full of birdsong and cowslips at the moment BBO Wildlife Trust Wild Oxfordshire

Holly Blues are flying around in our garden in Oxford whenever the sun is out - let's hope we have a few sunny spells over the May Bank Holiday BBO Wildlife Trust BC Upper Thames Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Butterflies Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre

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A female Bat-winged Phasia (Phasia hemiptera) seen today at BBO Wildlife Trust's Dry Sandford Pit, nr Abingdon - first one I've seen this year. The more colourful males are often seen here on Marjoram in summer #FliesofBritainandIreland Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister

My fave robberfly from Whiteford Burrows on the Gower - Pamponerus germanicus Pied-winged Robberfly with beetle prey #WorldRobberflyDay Dr Erica McAlister Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk #FliesofBritainandIreland

The last day of April & the first sunny, warm day after all the cold and gloom of recent days - just what the insects were waiting for, like this Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) catching the sun BBO Wildlife Trust's Rack Marsh, Bagnor at lunchtime today Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre British Dragonfly Society

Weird wildflowers - on the walk up to BBO Wildlife Trust's Hitchcopse Pit, nr Abingdon look out for the strange Spring Beauty with its cluster of tiny white flowers surrounded by a pair of fused leaved. The sandy soil here is perfect for this plant BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre

The scent of Wild Garlic was heavy on an overcast day in the Wyre Forest & these 2 craneflies were hunkered down amongst its leaves - Tipula submarmorata (left) & Tipula vittata (right) #FliesofBritainandIreland Worcs Wildlife Trust Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister

Just finished laying out the Stiletto Flies section of #FliesofBritainandIreland - the Coastal Silver-stiletto and the Common Stiletto are 2 of the 14 species of the photogenic Therividae family Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister Dipterists Forum

The beauty of Dandelions and Cuckooflowers in a meadow last week - that's what makes Spring for me! BBO Wildlife Trust BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour

It's not just bees that are important pollinators, flies are too, like this Blotch-winged Hoverfly (Leucozona lucorum) getting suck-in to a Ramsons flower BBO Wildlife Trust's Whitecross Green Wood EARTHDAY.ORG Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk Dr Erica McAlister #FliesofBritainandIreland

Saw my first fresh Green Hairstreak of the year on Friday on BBO Wildlife Trust's Greenham Common. Shame the weather has turned dull and cold again BC Upper Thames Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Butterflies

It's not often you see Goldilocks Buttercups with a normal cup shape like these seen in West Oxfordshire. They are usually seen with different sized petals or sometimes with no petals BBO Wildlife Trust Wild Oxfordshire Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Another interesting fly seen yesterday at BBO Wildlife Trust's Dry Sandford Pit, nr Abingdon - a picture-winged fly Otites guttatus sunning itself on a gatepost #FliesofBritainandIreland Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre Dipterists Forum

My first sighting of a male Cheilosia chrysocoma this year BBO Wildlife Trust's Dry Sandford Pit, nr Abingdon. #FliesofBritainandIreland Must look for it at Chilswell Valley nr Oxford as it's often seen there as well. A great mimic of Tawny Mining Bee Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Steven Falk

Spectacular drifts of Ramsons (Wild Garlic) flower in the Wyre Forest, nr Bewdley in April & male Ramsons Hoverflies (Portevinia maculata) bottom right can often be seen resting on its leaves Worcs Wildlife Trust Rory Dimond 🌼🪰🌼🐝🌼🦟 Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 Steven Falk @FlygirlNHM #FliesofBritainandIreland