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  • (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
  • 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
  • Syrphus torvus or vitripennis_Shetla...jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Hoverfly_Shetand_7...jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Shetland_0486.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_6964.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Shetland_7852.jpg
  • Sphaerophoria scripta_Long Hoverfly_...jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly_1628.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_Shetland_7148.jpg
  • Volucella pellucens_Hoverfly_1522.jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly1491.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_8986.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_8083.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_8515.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
  • Merodon equestris_Shetland_7359.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_Shetland_7167.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_female_hoverfly_2697.jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Shetland_6711.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_7950.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_1108.jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Lesser Bulb Fly_1s...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 arbustorum_Shetland_1888.jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Shetland_7772.jpg
  • Dasysyrphus albostriatus_Shetland_18...jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Lerwick_Shetland_7...jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Shetland_5034.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
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Hoverfly_Shetl...jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Shetland_7420.jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Hoverfly_Shetland_57...jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Hoverfly_Shetl...jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_9559.jpg
  • Volucella pellucens_Hoverfly_1527.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
  • Sericomyia silentis_Hoverfly_Shetlan...jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_Marmalade Hover...jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Shetland_2587.jpg
  • Syrphus ribesii_Shetland_4371.jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly_1483.jpg
  • Sericomyia lappona_Shetland_0325.jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_Marmalade Hover...jpg
  • Eristalis intricaria_Shetland_0007.jpg
  • Platycheirus albimanus_Hoverfly_Shet...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
  • Eristalis Pertinax_Shetland_1946.jpg
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