Hawthorn and Birch Shieldbugs

Hawthorn Shieldbug, Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale

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On Wednesday my Mill Hill transect gave me Marbled White 12, Meadow Brown 10, Small Heath 15, Adonis Blue 2, Brimstone, Common blue 2, Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell 7, an unidentified White, Small Purple and Gold 2, Cinnabar 2. 
late note: there seemed to be a hierarchy of who chased who, or perhaps it was their testerone levels: a Marbled White chased a Small Heath, a Small Heath chased a Meadow Brown who lives at the bottom of the pile.
Later at Southwater Woods I saw many Meadow Browns and Speckled Woods plus Hawthorn and Birch Shieldbugs.

Mill Hill:

Common Purple and Gold, Pyrausta purpuralis
55mm, f-22, flash

Common Purple and Gold in situ
50mm, f-22, flash

Wild Thyme, Thymus serpyllum
55mm, f-22, flash

Southwater Woods:

all taken with old 105mm micro-nikkor. mostly at f-22, some used f-11 or 16

Alder Spittlebug, Aphrophora alni

Bedstraw, Galium species

Birch Shieldbug, Elasmostethus interstinctus

Blue Bottle Fly, Calliphora vomitoria

Springtail, Allacma fusca

Cluster fly, Pollenia species

Coleophora species moth

Common Green Capsid, Lygocoris pabulinus

Common Nettle-tap, Anthophila fabriciana

Common Spotted-orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Common Sweep moth pupal case, Psyche casta

dead juvenile, possibly Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla

Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea

Harvestman species - id needed

Harvestman, Mitopus morio

Hawthorn Shieldbug, Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale

 This shieldbug landed on my arm so I took a few in situ shots before placing it on bracken.

Honeysuckle, Lonicera caprifolium

Miridae bug species nymph 

Murky-legged Black Legionnaire, Beris chalybata

Pendulous Sedge, Carex pendula

Red-legged Shieldbug, final instar nymph case, Pentatoma rufipes

Running crab spider, Philodromus albidus

Snail-killing fly, Tetanocera species

Speckled Bush Cricket nymph, Leptophyes punctatissima