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I managed to spend a couple of hours this morning at FWG when it wasn't raining too hard, just light showers and rain-free periods! There weren't a lot of insects to be seen, not surprisingly. But of those I did notice, there were many of the tiny, tiny Toxomerus hover flies, lots of long-legged flies which may be the most abundant fly at the garden. If you see minute flies that look metallic green or bronze, those are the long-legged flies. There are many species, and indeed, many genera, not always easy to separate out. I just call them Long-legged flies (Dolichopodids). There were also dozens of bumblebees clinging damply to various bits of vegetation. One had crawled up into a creeping bellflower and was trying to stay dry.