Photo 4

Not sure why they disappeared, but they were still attached to your original post so I was able to reinstate them.

Thank you for the reassuring agreement, have added to irecord.

It looks OK for an Argyra male. Personally I'm hesitant to say which species from a photo, unless you can see hairs on the disc of the scutellum, in which case it's diaphana

Many thanks. Glad I wasn't completely off-track. The quality of images in this case certainly won't give me any clarity about hairs on the scutellum, but if I have another opportunity, at least I may remember the key characteristic to try to capture!

Is this one digramma?

The other one is opaca.

E. digramma looks right to me.

I've just tried it, Sam, and it doesn't work for me either. If it isn't put right in the next couple of days, I'll drop Martin an email.

Thanks for checking Howard. Seems to be fixed now.

Seems I can search a Forum but only if I match the entire description of the topic; so no good.  Is there a wildcard character I need to use?

It looks right, but it could be a number of other species - hard to tell from a single, very small picture. The date and location are OK for Trixa (incidentally not Trixia) conspersa, which is widely distributed and not uncommon.

I think the photo was a casualty of the recent maintenance work on this website, apologies for that. I have now re-linked it and it should be available at larger size.

No pictures have appeared on either of your posts Sue.

thanks will try again!

Although this took a bit of time to do an initial post, I found it quite straightforward and now that I have done it once, I think it will be easy to use in future. I quite like it. It makes it very easy to resize the photos compared to some other sites I use.

Ian

a cranefly and a Tephrid