Hoverfly round up [2016-2018]

The Hoverfly Recording scheme has uploaded the records for 2017 to its mapping program. It can only narrow down the search to a two year period for some reason I can't work out yet. But the good news is that between 2016-2017 the northern Llynfi Valley 10km square [SS89] has had the highest number of recorded species in that time period - 113 for the UK. Then follows two Peterborough squares at 112 & 105 and then the southern Llynfi Valley square [SS88] at 98. Overall life species of 115 sees SS89 moving up to 6th from 12th overall in Wales and 2nd in Glamorgan, the top square being 130 in Angelsey and the top Glamorgan square being 123 in the Gower [Portenyon/Oxwich area].

So if I'm going to match that this year I'm going to have to pull my finger out as I've only recorded 12 species so far this year and no sign yet of the two spring species missing from our list - Melangyna quadrimaculata and Cheilosia nebulosa, but not for the want of trying.