Last Thursday (30th July) I woke up in the middle of the night with a high fever a burning hacking cough and I lost my voice briefly. I managed to phone work who told me not to come in until I had a covid-19 test. Luckily on Tuesday I had a negative test result after self-isolating and returned to work this Thursday (5th August). I spoke to the company boss and the scenario of what would have happened if I had tested positive. He said the company would immediately close and everyone in the factory would have to have a test before returning to work, a specialist company would have to come in to deep clean the workplace and the company would lose £100,000 pound a day - so no pressure there then. My brief illness was diagnosed as a sinus infection and was gone in 48 hours.
So back in the free world today I visited Gilfach, Top Llangynwyd which is particularly good at this time of year for hoverflies, with lots of flowers in bloom including large beds of Hogweed, Angelica, Creeping Thistle, Hedge Woundwort, Common Fleabane, Herb Robert, Oxford Ragwort and a few Buddleah bushes. Even though it was 30c I recorded 28 species of hoverfly. Pipizella viduata, Platycheirus manicatus and Helophilus hybridus were new for the year taking me to 102 for the year. Lots of good hoverflies included Dasysyrphus albostriatus, Parasyrphus lineola, Xanthogramma pedissequum, Riponnensia splendens and Helophilus pendulus. Lots of Eristalis about today with pertinax (80) the most numerous.
Lots of butterflies about with Small Tortoiseshell (20) the highest numbered species. A few 6-spot Burnets were still on the wing and more interesting flies included Nowicka ferox (Tachinid), 19 Phasia hemiptera (Tachinid) and Physocephala rufipes (Conopid).
6-spot Burnet (moth)
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