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  • Eco Card 22 (4x4) Puffin Flower Pick...jpg
  • Common Flower Bug_Anthocoris nemorum...jpg
  • Daisy Chain_spider web reflections_P...jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Lerwick_Shetland_9...jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Lesser Bulb Fly_1s...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
  • Scaeva pyrastri_Shetland_5900.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Lerwick_4614.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_0018.jpg
  • Orbed Red Underwing Skipper_Greece_0...jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Lerwick_Shetland_9...jpg
  • Large White_4760.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_6754.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_6964.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_8512.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_7817.jpg
  • Honeybee_Lerwick_9860.jpg
  • Daisy Chain_spider web reflections_P...jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_P7050310.jpg
  • Bombus muscorum agricolae_Shetland B...jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Lerwick_9943.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Lerwick_4616.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_hoverfly_Brow Lo...jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Lerwick_Shetland_0...jpg
  • Large White_Lerwick_4774.jpg
  • Collared Pratincole_Lesvos_Greece_DS...jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Shetland_6711.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_hoverfly_Shetland...jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Lerwick_Shetland_7...jpg
  • Atlantic Puffin_3740.jpg
  • American Robin_1939.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Shetland_7852.jpg
  • Episyrphus grossulare_Hoverfly_7405.jpg
  • Dasysyrphus albostriatus_Hoverfly_76...jpg
  • Allan & Irene_Wedding Day_8612.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Hoverfly_Diptera_...jpg
  • Common Blue_P7300633.jpg
  • Ringed Plover_P5110586.jpg
  • Sericomyia lappona_Shetland_0325.jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Hoverfly_Shetland_57...jpg
  • Platycheirus albimanus_Hoverfly_Shet...jpg
  • 15 x 10 puffin birdfair 2.jpg
  • Atlantic Puffin_3742.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
  • Flower Bee Sp_P7221172.jpg
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