With all the flowers now gone over, it just leaves the Ivy to visit for the dwindling number of hoverflies with the season coming to an end rapidly over the next two weeks until March 2021. The three sites I have been visiting have been Maesteg Welfare Park, Maesteg Cemetery and the Ivy laden trees of Llangynwyd viaduct. Highlights include Sericomyia silentis (4), Melanostoma mellinum (2) and Eupeodes corollae (1). Out of the 15 species seen Episyrphus balteatus (71) was the most numerous. From here on only warm days (15c+) will produce any insects and the Ivy will be gone by the end of the month.
Specimens have been restricted this year to one box (75) and I'll be lucky if I get any new ones to add to the total, fingers crossed.
Sericomyia silentis
Hawthorn shieldbug
Melanostoma scalare
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