Bloodsucker
You see these little fellows around everywhere in summer.  Rhagonycha fulva is a Soldier Beetle (Cantharidae).  The common name relates to the colour.
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- Hoverflies galore
 - Gorse Shield Bug
 - More Barnack action
 - Mega-blog from Barnack
 - Svensson's Copper Underwing
 - Juvenile Song Thrush
 - Six-Spot Burnets
 - Lunchtime on the western Nene Washes
 - More Little Egrets
 - Bugs, bugs, bugs
 - Weedon's Slug Theory debunked?
 - Swaddywell Insects
 - Elton Bridge Insects
 - Phew, what a whopper!
 - Dogsthorpe Star Pit birds
 - A Purple Patch (at least if you ignore the photogr...
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 - Know your larvae
 
 
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