Although the weather was poor, it's now Devilsbit Scabious season and it looks like a good crop this season. With this and good back-up from Goldenrod and Angelica, I managed a healthy 34 species some in good numbers. With the Scabious usually comes the larger more colourful hoverflies and I wasn't dissapointed. Highlights included Chrysotoxum bicintum, Chrysotoxum Festivum, Dasysyrphus albostriatus, Eupeodes latifasciatus, Xanthogramma pedissequum, Helophilus hybridus, Helophilus pendulus, Myathropa florea, Sericomyis silentis, Volucella bombylans and Volucella pellucens.
Other insect highlights included another Star-wort larva on Goldenrod, and the flies Tachina fera and Physocephela rufipes. No visible bird migration as of yet.
Devilsbit Scabiuos patch
Volucella pellucens
Baccha elongata
Myathropa florea
Serociomyia silentis
Star-wort larva on Goldenrod
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