Though perched on a Red Deadnettle/Lamium purpureum, this Black-shouldered Drone Fly/Eristalis dimidiata is covered in what I think is Dandelion/Taraxacum pollen.
Another Black-shouldered on the same patch of Dandelions.
Narrow-headed Marsh Fly/Helophilus fasciatus on the same Dandelions.
Flesh fly/Sarcophaginae.
Look at how pollen-y these field ants are! Pale Field Ants/Formica pallidefulva In Lesser Celandine/Ficaria verna.
First European Paper Wasp/Polistes dominula I’ve seen this year. Also in Lesser Celandine.
Another European Paper Wasp, in Callery Pear/Pyrus calleryana this time.
Flower Lebia Beetle/Lebia viridis, I believe, in Dandelion.
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