Hoverfly round-up 2017

The hoverfly season is now over, you might get the odd records on fine autumn/winter days but the season is essentially over until March 2018, when I start recording all over again 😊. Below are a couple of graphs showing how the 2017 season fared against previous seasons. 2017 started off with a bang recording numbers and species well above previous years and this continued up until the end of August. This is when numbers plummeted due to two factors 1) The Welsh weather returned to its norm of long periods of mist and rain interspersed with big storms and strong winds 2) I was out of the country for 3 weeks in September. I recorded  13 new species during the year taking the valley total to 128.