Maesteg (golf course) [SS8391]

 This 1km square comprises of the top half of the golf course plus surrounding lanes as well as the Garnwen car park area and takes about 2hrs to walk slowly.  After todays walk the number of species recorded there has risen to 76.  Humid today with some cloud cover but little wind means I recorded 28 species.  A lot of hoverflies were present on Angelica, Black Knapweed, Hemp Agrimony and now Common Fleabane. Big numbers of Syrphus around (150+) with Syrphus Ribesii (55 female) emerging in big numbers. Highlights included Leucozona glaucia, Melangyna compositarum and Riponnensia splendens. A few species in high number besides the Syrphus included Meliscaeva cinctella (85), Eristalis pertinax (120) and Eristalis tenax (60).

Syrphus ribesii

Leucozona glaucia

Riponnensia splendens

Conops quadrifasciatus (conopidae fly)

Phasia hemiptera (Tachinidae fly)