Very hot today (28c) making hoverfly recording very difficult as they tend to disappear at 26c. Nevertheless I did manage 18 species all in low numbers. Syritta pipiens (15) was the highest recorded. Good records included Scaeva pyrastri (2) and Xylota sylvarum (1).
Plenty of Butterflies out with 8 species seen, headed by Painted Lady (12). A large emergence of the soldier fly Broad Centurion (100+) was witnessed and the first Rutpela maculata (8) longhorn beetle have emerged otherwise all the usual species. Another gall on Large-leaved Lime this time that of the patch gall mite Eriophyes leiosoma.
Scaeva pyrastri
Eupeodes corollae
Rutpela maculata
Painted Lady
Patch gall of
Eriophyes leiosoma
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