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  • Platycheirus podagratus_1st Shetland...jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Hoverfly_Lerw...jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Hoverfly_Geosette...jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_hoverfly_Lerw...jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Hoverfly_Lerwick_She...jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Lerwick_Shetland_J...jpg
  • Nephrotoma flavipalpis_Cranefly_Lerw...jpg
  • Oystercatcher_Shetland_4062.jpg
  • Psila fimeteria_0109.jpg
  • Poplar Hawkmoth_2235.jpg
  • Bearded Seal_Lerwick_0222.jpg
  • Tolly & Frazer 3.jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Lesser Bulb Fly_1s...jpg
  • Tetragnatha extensa_(probable extens...jpg
  • Diamond-backed Moth_P6150190.jpg
  • Savi's Warbler_Shetland_June2020_P60...jpg
  • Click Beetle_0075.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_9919.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_0018.jpg
  • Northern Fulmar_5808.jpg
  • Common Tern_Lerwick_1810.jpg
  • Atlantic Puffin_5282.jpg
  • Common Guillemot_Egg_DSC2984.jpg
  • Dolichopodidae sp_6649.jpg
  • Dryomyza anilis_Shetland_3470.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_5636.jpg
  • Empis trigramma_Shetland_7214.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_7817.jpg
  • Eristalis pertinax_Hoverfly_Lerwick_...jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Hoverfly_Mating_Le...jpg
  • Red-rumped Swallow_P6110665.jpg
  • Razorbill_P6190335.jpg
  • Arctic Tern_P6181048.jpg
  • Eristalis pertinax_0023.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_4938.jpg
  • Tolly & Frazer 2.jpg
  • Atlantic Puffin_P6090703.jpg
  • White-throated Robin_2894.jpg
  • European Nightjar_0146.jpg
  • European Nightjar_0182.jpg
  • Psila fimeteria_0118.jpg
  • Northern Fulmar_5817.jpg
  • Oystercatcher_Shetland_4101.jpg
  • Common Guillemot_Shetland_DSC2949.jpg
  • Razorbill_Shetland_DSC2883.jpg
  • Razorbill_DSC2985.jpg
  • Bearded Seal_0483.jpg
  • Bearded Seal_Lerwick_0699.jpg
  • Bearded Seal_Lerwick_0713.jpg
  • Tolly & Frazer 4.jpg
  • Phaonia angelicae_Shetland_7686.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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(S.Falks quote) 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_Murky-legged Black L...jpg
  • Tipula varipennis_7856.jpg
  • Rose-coloured Starling_P6110020.jpg
  • Red-rumped Swallow_P6110725.jpg
  • Red-rumped Swallow_P6110393.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_Sumburgh Head_P60906...jpg
  • Savi's Warbler_Shetland_June2020_P60...jpg
  • American Robin_1746.jpg
  • Common Cuckoo_7960.jpg
  • Northern Fulmar_5814.jpg
  • Common Guillemot_2798.jpg
  • Atlantic Puffin_5035.jpg
  • Starling_DSC8370.jpg
  • Starling_Adult_Female_Summer_DSC0219.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_4822.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_4932.jpg
  • Dilophus femoratus_Bibonid Fly_Geose...jpg
  • Lejogaster metallina_Geosetter_Shetl...jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Lerwick_4594.jpg
  • Bearded Seal_0645.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
  • 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
  • 2nd Shetland record 20.06.2016, Law Lane, Lerwick, RN.<br />
1st Shetland record Roger Thomason, 30.04.2012, Mossbank, expert ID on Diptera Forum.
    Phaonia subventa_Shetland_2nd Shetla...jpg
  • (S.Falks quote): One of our three Microchrysa species - small, metallic soldierflies lacking spines on the scutellum. This species is readily distinguished by the all-black antennae and black front femorae.<br />
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M. polita is a widespread and locally common species usually found in the vicinity of shrubs and trees. Habitats used include woodland, gardens, hedgerows and scrubby brownfield sites.<br />
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The larvae develop in various decomposing substances including compost, grass cuttings and dung. The can be identified using Stubbs & Drake (2001). Adults fly from March until October, which is probably the longest flight period for a British soldierfly. Both sexes to rest on shrub or tree foliage and females sometimes congregate around compost heaps and compost heaps.
    Microchrysa polita_Black-horned Gem_...jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Shetland_7772.jpg
  • Common Crossbill_5523.jpg
  • Common Crossbill_5682.jpg
  • Platycheirus podagratus_1st Shetland...jpg
  • European Nightjar_0116.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_0045.jpg
  • Tolly & Frazer.jpg
  • Platycheirus podagratus_1st Shetland...jpg
  • Pteromalidae_Gall Wasp_1st for Shetl...jpg
  • Red-necked Phalarope.June 2015.Fetla...jpg
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