Varied selection of insects from last summer to ID please

[Johnny81]

Hello all, a varied selection all taken last summer. Cleaning up my files, getting ready for this year. Best pictures I have I am afraid... Getting them to genus level is fine and will give me a hand in insect ID (one of my weak points).

1.Beetle, taken in the lake district


2.Looks like one of the cuckoo bees to me? Taken in woodland Northamptonshire


3.Flesh-fly? woodland edge Northamptonshire.


Bees, Northamptonshire
4.5.

6.No idea on the black insect here, my garden Northampton


Many thanks

[Paul mabbott]

I only do beetles with ease - so your first one is Pterostichus madidus: the difference from any other Pterostichus that you're likely to see is in the rounded hind corners of the forebody.

[oxycera]

The black insect is a sawfly, maybe Arge sp. but the antennae isn't clear enough to be certain.

[Matt Smith]

2 = Bombus terrestris queen

4 = Bombus pascuorum / Apis mellifera

[Jason Green]

Evening Johnny,

The third is indeed a Sarcophagid; they are all about bristle-placement and male genitalia, so microscope jobs really.

Take care,

Jason