Surprisingly other insects were hard to find but included the longhorn beetle Stictoleptura rubra and sawfly Abia fasciata. Top Butterfly was Meadow Brown (20) of only 6 species although a brief large fritillary went unidentified.
Saturday 27 July 2019
Lletty comes alive
With the mass emergence of blooming Hogweed and the temperatures dropping to 20c a huge number of hoverflies were recorded along the lanes of Lletty Brongu in fact 1000+ were seen of 32 species. New for the year were Melangyna umbellatarum, Cheilosia scutellata and Lejogaster metallina. Highest numbers included. Syrphus species (210 including 60 ribesii), Cheilosia species (100 of 5 species), Chrysogaster (60), Eristalis pertinax (200) and Syritta pipiens (200). Other good sightings included Dasysyrphus albostriatus (3), Epistrophe grossulariae (1), Leucozona Glaucia (3), Scaeva pyrastri (3), Orthonevra nobilis (3) and Pipiza austriaca (1).
Surprisingly other insects were hard to find but included the longhorn beetle Stictoleptura rubra and sawfly Abia fasciata. Top Butterfly was Meadow Brown (20) of only 6 species although a brief large fritillary went unidentified.
Melangyna umbellatarum
Leucozona glaucia
Epistrophe grossulariae
Abia fasciata - one of the Club-horned Sawfly group.
Surprisingly other insects were hard to find but included the longhorn beetle Stictoleptura rubra and sawfly Abia fasciata. Top Butterfly was Meadow Brown (20) of only 6 species although a brief large fritillary went unidentified.
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