An exciting bunch for ID please

[wildlifepilgrim]

1) Bumble bee sized hoverfly on Cow Parsley

2)Green scorpion fly sized insect, covered in cow parsley pollen

3)Rose Sawfly like creature but with orange wings

4)Large ground beetle sized orange bug

5)Green hairy fly, dungfly sized on nettles by a canal

[wildlifepilgrim]

6) Cinnebar sized mothlike creature with huge antenna. Flying low over canal.

[Jason Green]

Afternoon WP,

The first is Volucella pellucens, the fourth is the Red-headed Cardinal Beetle Pyrochroa serraticornis and the fifth is a Dung-fly Scathophaga sp.

The last is a kind of Alder/Caddis/Stone-fly-type - but it's not a group I have any personal dealings with.

Take care,

Jason

[wildlifepilgrim]

Thanks Jason, I've made progress with the two sawflies 2) Green Legged Sawfly and 3) Arge cyanocrocea.

Just 6) left!