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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
  • Sphaerophoria scripta_Long Hoverfly_...jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_Marmalade Hover...jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_P5300308.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_hoverfly_P53001...jpg
  • Hoverfly_Sericomyia silentis_Bog Hov...jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Hoverfly_Shetl...jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_Shetland_7148.jpg
  • Episyrphus grossulare_Hoverfly_7405.jpg
  • Eristalis pertinax_Hoverfly_Lerwick_...jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Hoverfly_Lerw...jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Hoverfly_Mating_Le...jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_hoverfly_Brow Lo...jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Hoverfly_Shetland_57...jpg
  • Volucella pellucens_Hoverfly_1527.jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Hoverfly_Lerwick_She...jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_Shetland_7167.jpg
  • Dasysyrphus albostriatus_Hoverfly_76...jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Hoverfly_Shetand_7...jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly_1483.jpg
  • Myathropa florea_Hoverfly_1563.jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly_1628.jpg
  • Platycheirus podagratus_1st Shetland...jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Hoverfly_Lerw...jpg
  • Volucella pellucens_Hoverfly_1522.jpg
  • Chrysotoxum bicinctum_Hoverfly_Essex...jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Hoverfly_Geosette...jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Hoverfly_Diptera_...jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Hoverfly_Shetl...jpg
  • Platycheirus albimanus_Hoverfly_Shet...jpg
  • Sericomyia silentis_Hoverfly_Shetlan...jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Hoverfly_Shetl...jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Hoverfly_0655.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_female_hoverfly_2697.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_hoverfly_Lerw...jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_hoverfly_Shetland...jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_hoverfly_Brow Lo...jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_Marmalade Hover...jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_Lerwick_9796.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_4938.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Lerwick_4614.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Lerwick_4616.jpg
  • Sericomyia lappona_Shetland_0325.jpg
  • Xanthogramma pedissequum_7167.jpg
  • Xanthogramma pedissequum_6696.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_4822.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_4932.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_P5300195.jpg
  • Epistrophe grossulare_7677.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus mating_Lerwick_4...jpg
  • Eupeodes latifasciatus_Lerwick_9440.jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Shetland_6079.jpg
  • Lejogaster metallina_Geosetter_Shetl...jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5865.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_Shetland_5900.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Lerwick_4589.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Lerwick_9809.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Lerwick_4594.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Lerwick_9943.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5785.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
  • Eristalis pertinax_0023.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
  • Helophilus pendulus_Shetland_0486.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_8515.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_6964.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Shetland_7359.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Shetland_7852.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_0018.jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Lerwick_Shetland_9...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 />
<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_6754.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_8083.jpg
  • Syrphus torvus or vitripennis_Shetla...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
  • 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
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_8512.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_2547.jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Lerwick_Shetland_9...jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5803.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_8986.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_1888.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_8057.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
  • Eupeodes corallae_Shetland_7420.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_7817.jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly1491.jpg
  • Eristalis pertinax_Shetland_4087.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_7156.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_Sumburgh Head_P60906...jpg
  • Xyota segnis_2618.jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Shetland_7772.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_9919.jpg
  • Eupeodes latifasciatus_Lerwick_9437.jpg
  • Dasysyrphus albostriatus_Shetland_18...jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Lerwick_Shetland_7...jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Shetland_5034.jpg
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