The Hogweed is starting to fade but is being replaced by good crops of Angelica, Black Knapweed and Hemp Agrimony. So a little jaunt out after family duties provided me with 27 species of Hoverfly. Highlights being Chrysotoxum arcuatum (on a plastic bag), Cheilosia vernalis and Eristalis rupium, The battle for number supremacy is still being waged between Meliscaeva cinctella (188) and Eristalis pertinax (70).
Other insects noted today were the butterflies Red Admiral and Small Copper, the micro moth Platyptilia gonodactyla (triangle plume) and the longhorn beetle Stictoleptura rubra (male).
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