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  • Platycheirus manicatus_4938.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Lerwick_4614.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Lerwick_4616.jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_Lerwick_9796.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_P5300308.jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Shetland_6079.jpg
  • Lejogaster metallina_Geosetter_Shetl...jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus mating_Lerwick_4...jpg
  • Epistrophe grossulare_7677.jpg
  • Xanthogramma pedissequum_6696.jpg
  • Xanthogramma pedissequum_7167.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_4932.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_P5300195.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_Shetland_5900.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_4822.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Lerwick_4589.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Lerwick_4594.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Lerwick_9943.jpg
  • Eupeodes latifasciatus_Lerwick_9440.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Lerwick_9809.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5865.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_hoverfly_P53001...jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5785.jpg
  • Xanthogramma pedissequum_7159.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_hoverfly_P5300125.jpg
  • Steven Falk: “A brightly banded hoverfly that can be conspicuous on the flowers of umbellifers (especially Angelica) and thistles in woodlands and wetlands in late summer. It often hovers immediately beside such flowers, and may even feed whilst hovering, which is unusual behaviour for syrphids. The robust build and particularly straight and broad yellow bands (which extend fully to the side margins of the abdomen), combined with a rather dull thorax, create a distinctive jizz in the field. The larvae are aphidophagous and have been found on Sycamore foliage in Britain, also on Winter Wheat abroad.”
    Epistrophe grossulare_Shetland_3447.jpg
  • Sphaerophoria scripta_Long Hoverfly_...jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_Marmalade Hover...jpg
  • Sericomyia lappona_Shetland_0325.jpg
  • Platycheirus podagratus_1st Shetland...jpg
  • Aberrant Syrphus sp_2404.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_9793.jpg
  • Steven Flaks: "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_0977.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Hoverfly_Shetl...jpg
  • Eristalis pertinax_0023.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_0018.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
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_8512.jpg
  • Dasysyrphus albostriatus_Shetland_18...jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_8057.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Lerwick_Shetland_7...jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_Shetland_7148.jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly1491.jpg
  • Episyrphus grossulare_Hoverfly_7405.jpg
  • Eristais pertinax_4046.jpg
  • Eristalis pertinax_Hoverfly_Lerwick_...jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Hoverfly_Lerw...jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Shetland_0486.jpg
  • Steven 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_1115.jpg
  • Steven Flaks: “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_1010.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_6964.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Shetland_7852.jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Hoverfly_Shetand_7...jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Hoverfly_Mating_Le...jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Lerwick_Shetland_9...jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_8986.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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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_5636.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_Shetland_7167.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_7817.jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly_1483.jpg
  • Myathropa florea_Hoverfly_1563.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Hoverfly_Lerw...jpg
  • Eupeodes latifasciatus_Lerwick_9437.jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Lerwick_Shetland_9...jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5803.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_1888.jpg
  • Syrphus torvus or vitripennis_Shetla...jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Shetland_7772.jpg
  • Volucella pellucens_Hoverfly_1522.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Hoverfly_Geosette...jpg
  • Platycheirus podagratus_1st Shetland...jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Hoverfly_Diptera_...jpg
  • Hoverfly_Sericomyia silentis_Bog Hov...jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_Sumburgh Head_P60906...jpg
  • Xyota segnis_2618.jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_0124.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_8083.jpg
  • Steven 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_0958.jpg
  • Eristals intricaria_Shetland_6199.jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Shetland_7420.jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Shetland_5034.jpg
  • Sericomyia silentis_Hoverfly_Shetlan...jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Hoverfly_Shetland_57...jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_6614.jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly_1628.jpg
  • Volucella pellucens_Hoverfly_1527.jpg
  • Dasysyrphus albostriatus_Shetland_46...jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Hoverfly_Lerwick_She...jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_hoverfly_Brow Lo...jpg
  • Merodon equestris_2547.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_0164.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_9919.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
  • Sphaerophoria scripta_Shetland_0765.jpg
  • Steven 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_1073.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Hoverfly_Shetl...jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_9559.jpg
  • Eristalis Pertinax_Shetland_1946.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Hoverfly_0655.jpg
  • Dasysyrphus albostriatus_Hoverfly_76...jpg
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