beetle, bee, fly etc?

[diggleken]

Tootling about Diggle fields before the HUGE thunderstorm today, these were seen that I dont know.
Grateful for any help/steer.
Very small green Beetle/weevil on Water Avens, Geum rivale. Nettle weevil?

Then a bumble bee, these always confuse me, again on Geum. Nice lemon yellow and hairy but with a bit of ruddiness at the tail.

And a fly nectaring - seems to be sort of pale gray/green on abdomen. I dont suppose this can be nailed at all........!

Then lastly something I quickly spotted and took one grab shot before it dropped off into the grass and I lost it - no idea what it is, but it appears to be munching a fly or spider.................

Thanks a lot
Ken

[JRsbugs]

Hi Ken,

Can't say for the weevil, there's a few green ones.

Interesting bumblebee! Is the red on the tail hairs or pollen? If it's hairs it looks like Bombus sylvarum male! You had best wait for Stuart on that one as location might be iffy and it's rare.

Bombus sylvarum

The fly I think is Muscidae, Hebecnema sp. female. If you could see it has a black halter it would be H. nigra, there looks to be something yellowish under the calypters but it's not where the halter lands on mine.

Last beetle is Cantharidae, probably Cantharis sp. but you need to see the pronotum. It looks to me like Cantharis nigricans.

Janet

[diggleken]

Thanks a lot Janet - I do set some tests dont I!
I thought the weevil may be Phylobius pomaceous as it has greeny legs too, but theres probably too many candidates to be sure?
Anyway, the bee - two more shots I'd just deleted, but recovered from the recycle bin just in time, they may help - not pollen, def the tail colour.

And how are you (anyone!) onMayflies - this landed onmy speccs, so I took its pic - is the wing veination clear enough to ID it?

Cheers
Ken

[JRsbugs]

The alternative for the bee and more common one is Bombus pratorum male, but the back view showed a lot of silvery hairs on the abdomen.

The green weevil is tricky unless you found it on nettles, a lot of them have green on legs too until it wears off. Size can help a little but closer shots would be needed I think.

There's a couple of people here now who might help with the Mayfly..