Luck was with me when I spotted this attractive new-to-me cranefly; I was leaning down to photograph a flower at ground level when I turned my head to see it on a plant next to me. ‘Oh, hello.’ Click, click, click.

Though there are some similarly marked cranefly species, it turns out that my identification of this as Tipula lunata is correct. The Naturespot website reports that it can be found from May through to July in well vegetated areas throughout Britain, so keep an eye out when you’re out and about in Nature.