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201 images Created 24 Jun 2017

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  • Rhingia campestris_hoverfly_P5300125.jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_P7050310.jpg
  • Diamond-back Moth_Plutella xylostell...jpg
  • Diamond-backed Moth_P6150190.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_P5300308.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_hoverfly_P53001...jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_P5300291.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_P5300195.jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_P6090188.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_Sumburgh Head_P60906...jpg
  • Hoverfly Cocoon_4080.jpg
  • Monochamus sartor rosenmuelleri_Fir ...jpg
  • Monochamus sartor rosenmuelleri_Fir ...jpg
  • Mitopus morio_3018.jpg
  • Stonefly_Nemoura cinerea_3012.jpg
  • Common Flower Bug_Anthocoris nemorum...jpg
  • Sycamore Aphid_Drepanoosiphum platan...jpg
  • Clay-coloured Weevil_2423.jpg
  • Clay-coloured Weevil_2426.jpg
  • Aberrant Syrphus sp_2404.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_2320.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_2566.jpg
  • Xyota segnis_2618.jpg
  • Beris geniculata_male_Long-horned Bl...jpg
  • Beris geniculata_male_2734.jpg
  • Beris chalybata_female_2419.jpg
  • Large White_2610.jpg
  • Morellia hortorum_Muscidae_2349.jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_2754.jpg
  • Syrphus ribesii_female_2355.jpg
  • Scathophaga stercoraria_Yellow Dung ...jpg
  • Xylota segnis_2634.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_female_hoverfly_2697.jpg
  • Microchrysa polita_2689.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_2547.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_0164.jpg
  • Psila fimeteria_0109.jpg
  • Microchrysa polita_male_0452.jpg
  • Diptera sp_0296.jpg
  • Empis tessellata_0215.jpg
  • Ichneumon species_unknown_9932.jpg
  • Meiosimyza rorida_9969.jpg
  • Ichneumon sp_0140.jpg
  • Psila fimeteria_0118.jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_0124.jpg
  • Large White_9944.jpg
  • Eristalis pertinax_0023.jpg
  • Microchrysa polita_soldierfly_0059.jpg
  • Click Beetle_0075.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_9919.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_0018.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_0045.jpg
  • Yellow Dung Fly_Scathophaga stercora...jpg
  • Malthodes sp._Soldier Beetle_29.06.1...jpg
  • Euura ribesii_Sawfly_27.06.19_9867.jpg
  • Bombus muscorum agricolae_Shetland B...jpg
  • Honeysuckle Moth_Micro_Ypsolopha den...jpg
  • Epistrophe grossulare_7677.jpg
  • Honeybee_Lerwick_9860.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Lerwick_9809.jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_Lerwick_9796.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Lerwick_9943.jpg
  • Eupeodes latifasciatus_Lerwick_9437.jpg
  • Eupeodes latifasciatus_Lerwick_9440.jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Lerwick_Shetland_0...jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Lerwick_Shetland_9...jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Lerwick_Shetland_9...jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5803.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5865.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5785.jpg
  • Diamond-backed Moth_Shetland_6126.jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Shetland_6079.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_Shetland_5900.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_4822.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_4932.jpg
  • Notocelia cynosbatella_Shetland_4339.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_4938.jpg
  • Dilophus femoratus_Bibonid Fly_Geose...jpg
  • Lejogaster metallina_Geosetter_Shetl...jpg
  • Nematus (Craesus) alniastri_Sawfly_1...jpg
  • Large White_Lerwick_4774.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Lerwick_4594.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Lerwick_4589.jpg
  • Large White_4760.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Lerwick_4614.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus mating_Lerwick_4...jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Lerwick_4616.jpg
  • Dolichopodidae sp_6649.jpg
  • Angleshades_Shetland_0110.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_8986.jpg
  • Large Yellow Underwing_Shetland_0062.jpg
  • Beris geniculata_Shetland_8846.jpg
  • Harvestman sp_Spider_Shetland_1457.jpg
  • According to Stephen Falks, "A large, long-winged relative of Melanostoma, with very distinctive abdominal markings in both sexes (which are patterned rather differently to one-another as in Melanostoma). This is a strongly migratory species that may be starting to overwinter in Britain judging by some recent spring records, but with the British population clearly reinforced by immigration. The adults are most typically encountered at woodland edge and in scrubby habitats. The larvae are predators of semi-gregarious micro-moths on shrubs and certain herbs."
    Xanthandrus comtus_Shetland_9445.jpg
  • B. chalybata is our most widespread and common Beris species. It is one of two dark-bodied species with pale legs lacking any blackish areas on the femorae and tibiae. Females tend to have clean orange legs; those of the males tend to be a dusky orange and may appear dark in certain lights. B. morrisii by contrast is larger, with paler yellow legs and a brighter green thorax.<br />
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B. chalybata occurs in a wide range of habitats, but perhaps especially woodland and other areas with trees and shrubs. It can tolerate quite urbansed settings.
    Beris chalybata_Shetland_3438.jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Shetland_6711.jpg
  • (S.Falks quote) The 'Lesser Bulb-fly', a common pest of bulbs (especially daffodils) in many gardens and suburban areas, but relatively scarce in the wider countryside compared with the very similiar E. strigatus.<br />
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Males of E. funeralis are readily separable from those of strigatus by checking the underside of the hind femorae, which have the basal ventral section free of hairs and shining (entirely covered in short hairs in strigatus) and bearing a slight tubercle. Funeralis also averages a little smaller and there are differences in the genitalia (see Stubbs & Falk, 2002).<br />
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Female funeralis is best separated from strigatus by the less heavily dusted frons which has much narrower dusted strips alongside the eye margins. The 3rd antennal segment tends to be rounder and less rhomboid.<br />
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Like Merodon equestris, this species appears to have been introduced to Britain with imported bulbs from the Continentin recent times and was rare in the early 20th century.
    Eumerus funeralis_Shetland_6754.jpg
  • Red Admiral_Shetland_0266.jpg
  • Beautiful Silver Y_Shetland_1624.jpg
  • Dasysyrphus albostriatus_Shetland_18...jpg
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