The Spelter is essentially just a football field size colliery spoil meadow, with the rest of the square being urban areas. Nevertheless at this time of year a new selection of blooming flowers always attracts a lot of hoverflies. The dominant blossoms in order were Water Mint, Wild Parsnip, Upright Hedge Parsley, Common Ragwort and now even a small patch of Devilsbit Scabious. So here I had 28 species some in good numbers over 2 hours on Sunday. Again I recorded another female Volucella zonaria. Other highlights included Chrysotoxum bicinctum, Eupeodes latifasciatus, Scaeva pyrastri, Helophilus trivittatus and Volucella pellucens. Eristalis tenax (65) was the most numerous.
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Volucella zonaria
Cheilosia illustrata
Scaeva pyrastri
Chrysotoxum bicinctum
Syritta pipiens
Volucella pellucens
Lots of Butterflies were about and I managed a photo of the scarce Essex Skipper.
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