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  • 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
  • Black Guillemot_Summer Plumage_Lerwi...jpg
  • Common Tern_P6042631.jpg
  • Common Guillemot_1716.jpg
  • Common Loon_9578.jpg
  • Sanderling_0485.jpg
  • Sardinian Warbler_P5291354.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_Murky-legged Black L...jpg
  • Glaucous Gull_P8135160.jpg
  • European Shag_4576.jpg
  • European Shag_4614.jpg
  • Oystercatcher_Shetland_4062.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_Shetland_5900.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Lerwick_4614.jpg
  • Beautiful Silver Y_Shetland_1624.jpg
  • Dasysyrphus albostriatus_Shetland_18...jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Lerwick_Shetland_7...jpg
  • Eristais pertinax_4046.jpg
  • Herring Gull_P8135579.jpg
  • Black-headed Gull_P6243023.jpg
  • Common Tern_P5243873.jpg
  • Daisy Chain_spider web reflections_P...jpg
  • Sardinian Warbler_P5291093.jpg
  • Northern Gannet_P9161172.jpg
  • Atlantic Puffin_P8100549.jpg
  • Atlantic Puffin_3740.jpg
  • Atlantic Puffin_1750.jpg
  • Northern Gannet_6495.jpg
  • Poplar Hawkmoth_2235.jpg
  • Orca_Killer Whale_shetland_6806.jpg
  • Orca_Killer Whale_Shetland_6899.jpg
  • Orca_Killer Whale_Shetland_6858.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_8057.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
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly1491.jpg
  • Great Skua_005423.jpg
  • Irene & Allan Garrick_Wedding Day_86...jpg
  • Red-throated Diver_DSC4173.jpg
  • Red-throated Diver_DSC4252.jpg
  • Limited Edition R.T.Diver calling.psd
  • Platycheirus podagratus_1st Shetland...jpg
  • Common Tern_P5290766.jpg
  • Common Tern_P5290809.jpg
  • Arctic Tern_P5245558.jpg
  • Common Tern_P5244022.jpg
  • White-letter Hairstreak_P7231311.jpg
  • White-letter Hairstreak_P7231283.jpg
  • Sardinian Warbler_P5291220.jpg
  • Long-tailed Skua_P5230936.jpg
  • Arctic Tern_P6181010.jpg
  • Diamond-backed Moth_P6150190.jpg
  • Razorbill_P6140642.jpg
  • Atlantic puffin_P6090495.jpg
  • Savi's Warbler_Shetland_June2020_P60...jpg
  • Rock Pipit_P6020897.jpg
  • Chocolate-tip_DSC1319.jpg
  • Chocolate-tip_DSC1338.jpg
  • American Robin_1939.jpg
  • Common Guillemot_1700.jpg
  • Beris geniculata_male_2734.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_2547.jpg
  • Click Beetle_0075.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_9919.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_0018.jpg
  • Common Cuckoo_8323.jpg
  • Common Tern_5599-2.jpg
  • House Sparrow_4850.jpg
  • House Sparrow_4801.jpg
  • Northern Fulmar_5808.jpg
  • Common Guillemot and Chick_5881.jpg
  • Atlantic Puffin_Fratercula arctica_S...jpg
  • Common Darter_6853.jpg
  • Xanthogramma pedissequum_6696.jpg
  • Xanthogramma pedissequum_7167.jpg
  • Common Tern_Lerwick_1810.jpg
  • Sanderling_0302.jpg
  • Sanderling_0494.jpg
  • Northern Gannet_Underwater Gannets_R...jpg
  • Northern Fulmar_5290.jpg
  • Atlantic Puffin_5282.jpg
  • Starling_Adult_Female with Food_0323.jpg
  • Common Cuckoo_DSC0213.jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Lerwick_Shetland_9...jpg
  • Common Guillemot_Egg_DSC2984.jpg
  • Orca_Killer Whale_Shetland_6854.jpg
  • Dolichopodidae sp_6649.jpg
  • Beris geniculata_Shetland_8846.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Shetland_0486.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
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_Shetland_7148.jpg
  • Red-throated Diver_1632.jpg
  • Atlantic Puffin_8452.jpg
  • Northern Fulmar_8408.jpg
  • Sphaerophoria scripta_Long Hoverfly_...jpg
  • Myathropa florea_Hoverfly_1563.jpg
  • Episyrphus grossulare_Hoverfly_7405.jpg
  • Orca_Killer Whale_7361.jpg
  • Bearded Seal_Spitsbergen_DSC9687.jpg
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