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Showing posts with label Hoverflies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hoverflies. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 March 2021

Cheilosia caerulescens - a new hoverfly for the patch

 Cheilosia caerulescens, Hunstanton, 24th March 2021, found on house leeks by Joan Fox



Sunday, 10 May 2020

Eight "flies" from along the River Hun

The sawfly Arge cyancocrocea, male, River Hun, 8th May 2020


The hoverfly Rhingia campetris, female, River Hun, 8th May 2020


The scorpionfly Panorpa germanica, male, River Hun, 8th May 2020


Red-legged Robberfly, Dioctria rufipes, female, River Hun, 8th May 2020


The sawfly Athalia rosae, female, River Hun, 8th May 2020



The Celery Fly Euleia heraclei, River Hun, 8th May 2020


The hoverfly Cheilosia albitarsis, male, River Hun, 8th May 2020


The Dance Fly Empis femorta, pair, snacking whilst copulating, River Hun, 8th May 2020



Saturday, 25 April 2020

Another from 2013 and some from today, 25th April 2020

Tropidia scita, Holme Marsh, 23rd June 2013


Yellow Archangel (variegated garden var), Old Hunstanton, 25th April 2020


Rhingia campestris, River Hun, 25th April 2020


Eupeodes luniger, male, Chapel Bank, Hunstanton, 25th April 2020



Chrysotoxum cautum, female,, Hunstanton dunes, 25th April 2020




Friday, 10 April 2020

Off Patch: Roydon Common



Yellow Horned, Roydon Common 9th March 2020


 Cheilosia albipila, Roydon Common, 23rd March 2020


10 Spot Lady bird Adalia decempunctata, Roydon Common, 23rd March 2020


Glow-worm larva,  Roydon Common, 23rd March 2020


Gorse Shield Bug, Roydon Common, 23rd March 2020


Gorse Weevil, Exapion ulicis, Roydon Common, 23rd <arch 2020





A spring insect miscellany

 Honey Bee, Hunstanton garden, 22nd March 2020


The Hoverfly Eristalis tenax, female, Hunstanton garden, 22nd March 2020


The Hoverfly Platycheirus albimanus, male, Hunstanton garden,  24th March 2020


Black Oil Beetle, Meloe proscarabaeus, Ringstead Downs,


The Tachinid Fly Gymnochaeta viridis, Ringstead Downs, 4th April 2020


Dark-edged Bee-fly, Bombylius major, Ringstead Downs, 4th April 2020


The sawfly Dolerus puncticollis, female, Ringstead Downs, 4th April 2020


Hairy-footed flower-bee, Anthophora plumipes,  female, Hunstanton garden, 10th April 2020


Bibio anglicus, pair (male all black), River Hun, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020


Alderfly, Sialis lutaria, River Hun, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020


Bibio marci, male, River Hun, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020


 Epistrophe elegans, male, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020




Cream-spot Ladybird, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020



Harlequin Ladybird, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020


Brassica Shield Bug, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020


Hairy Shield Bug, Chapel Bank, 10th April 2020


Green Shield Bug, Chapel Bank 10th April 2020


Saturday, 21 March 2020

Two early spring flies

Dark-edged Bee-fly, Bombylius major, Old Hunstanton, 21st March 2020

Male (eyes meet over head)


 Female (eyes do not meet over head)


Eristalis pertinax, male, Old Hunstanton, 21st March 2020

Monday, 5 August 2019

Three Hoverflies on Holme Marsh

Volucella zonaria, female, Holme Marsh, 3rd August 2019


 Eristalis intricarius, male, Holme Marsh, 3rd August 2019


 Helophilus hybridus, male, Holme Marsh, 3rd August 2019


Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Some early-season insects from Holme Marsh

Dark-edged Bee-fly, male, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019


Ptychoptera albimanus, female, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019


Buffish Mining Bee, Andrena nigroena, female, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019


Eristalis pertinax, female, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019


Yellow Dung Fly, Scathophaga stercoraria, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019


Fabricius' Nomad Bee, Nomada fabriciana, Holme Marsh, 24th March 2019