Insectorama

Bumbling bees

Silver-Y (check out the curly tongue)

Large Red Damselflies

Broad-bodied Chaser

Four-spotted Chaser

Red-eyed Damselflies

Azure Damselflies

Ichneumon wasp with scary-looking ovipositor (not a sting)

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM

Assorted creepy-crawlies

Small Red-eyed Damselfly

Purple Hairstreak

Ammophila sabulosa, the Sand Wasp, carrying a Pine Beauty moth caterpillar

Thanks (again) to Ian Dawson for sorting the ID of the beasts in the last photo.

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM

Black and yellow stripey things

Tiny ichneumon wasp thing. The long pointy bit on its rear end is for egg-laying, presumably into other insects...

Hoverflies?

This is our common wasp, I think. Googled for more information about them, but the results mostly advised me how to kill them.

This looks similar, but is different. Don't know what it is, though... Can anyone help?

photos taken with Nikon Coolpix 995