weekday roundup

Weather has been fine all week, so stopped off at a few places for an hour on the way home from work including Blaencaerau, Foel Fawr, Drysiog, Garnwen and Pont Rhydd-y-Cyff. New hoverflies for the year included Xanthogramma pedissequum and Criorhina flocossa. Still huge numbers of bees about, more than anytime I've seen over the last twenty years particularly Early and Tree Bumblebees. The first Pachytodes cerambyciformis longhorn beetle of the year was at Foel Fawr and Small Heath, Common Blue and Dingy Skipper butterflies are now on the wing. A Garden Warbler behind Railway Terrace was a nice surprise, House Martins were numerous at traditional sites like Nanty and Llangynwyd but none yet at Caerau. Swifts are starting to come in at Caerau, Nanty, Maesteg and Garth, hopefully they will have a good year/

 Dingy Skipper

 Myathropa florea

 Nematopogon Schwarziellus (I'm guessing by the antennae length and small size - Sid ??)

 Pachytodes cerambyciformis

 Small Heath

Xanthogramma pedissequum s.s.