Brenda Try Mallow or Willow flea beetle these are UK species, good photos of them

Hi Brenda - A little bit info on these moths, I have only found bird-cherry-ermine where I live. hope you find these site useful

http://britishlepidoptera.weebly.com/002-yponomeuta-padella-orchard-ermine.html

http://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/yponomeuta-evonymella

http://butterfly-conservation.org/3114-6041/dont-worry-about-ermine-webs.html

HI Brenda

Try these - http://butterfly-conservation.org/51-1427/mint-moth.html

Also Pyrausta purpuralis. link to both - http://www.upperthames-butterflies.org.uk/Moth_files/Pyraustas_difficult_moths.pdf

Small skipper female, Thymelicus sylvestris, males have black sex-brands on each forewings. good photo

Hi Just live over the hill from Hexham, great photos
Your first is Stitch wort, second Red campion, third is the dreaded Spanish blue-bell, forth Water-forget-me-not and the last is May blossom on Hawthorn, this is the flower from the saying, “Never cast a clout till May be out” Clout means clothing.

Hi Silvia

The flowers are perfect and the colour fantastic, I hate to say this but they are Spanish bluebells. If you live next to a wooded area with real bluebells, you should destroy them to stop the promiscuous bumblebees cross-pollinating with the wild stock.

You should never dismiss anything out of hand, because it does not correspond to the norm; it may have been parasitized or something else to make it abnormal. Your link to the photo shows a textbook image of what looks like the rear view of a Coccinella pupa in an early stage of metamorphosis, but most importantly the anchor threads. Reviewing Brenda’s image, though not very clear, looked like a pupa in its later stage of development, but not normal, the anchor foot is elongated which is not normal but it looks like there are anchor threads. At the business end, where it is going to hatch out, it looks like there’s something yellow in there, but it looks like it has spots, I’ve never seen a newly hatched Ladybird with spots, they develop later with age, but who’s to say it does not.

That is why I never came to a positive I.D, only it “looks like”
What Brenda needs to do now is to go back to where it was found, take the leaf with it on and put it in a jar to see what it is when it has hatched

I don’t know who put the link on to Wikipedia, that website is only there for a broad view of information not for a positive I.D

Your caterpillar is a noctuid moth called Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica) common throughout the country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Character
The Green bottle is Dasyphora cyanella but i think it had a name change to Eudasyphora cyanella
The second from last looks more like the pupal case of a ladybird
The last is a pollen beetle, probably of the family Oedemeridae

That is one of the most colourful hoverflies I’ve seen (I think you call them flower flies), wish we had them as colourful over here, I can see its a Eristalini by the deep loop in wing vein R4+5. Just Googled it and the species you have photographed is Eristalis transversa, in this country the larvae of the Eristalis group usually live in foul water and are known as rat-tailed maggots.

Its a female Tegenaria Brenda, either domestica or campestris, my money is on campestris.
The orb-web spider looks like a strange pattered Araneus diadematus or Neoscona adianta
I like the first shot best, good luck with your research

Hi Brenda, You must have quite a garden
Good photo of a Red-headed cardinal beetle, this lives behind loose bark. Second is a male soldier fly Chloromyia Formosa found in damp places near water, third is one of the wood boring Longhorn beetles, probably Stenocorus meridianus which comes in a few different colour forms, this group is now classed as an ancient woodland indicator species.

Your fourth is a bit of a puzzle, it looks more like a Weevil, the antennae are in the right place but are rather stout, never seen a group like this.

Not all Dragonflies lay their eggs in water as your photo suggests our southern hawker Aeshna cyanea lays its eggs up to two feet away in wood, rock crevices or moss on wood and stone. The pro-larvae delays hatching until it reaches water.

Try this site in your country

http://www4.uwm.edu/fieldstation/naturalhistory/bugoftheweek/swamp-darner.cfm

Hi Blackthorn, looks like winter came early at Sedgefield we still have leaves on our silver berch trees. out picking sloes yesterday off the Blackthorn bushes, hands and arms all red puncture marks from the thorns.

Hi
Love this plant family, it's a Protea and it looks like the Common Sugarbush (Protea repends).