I was pleased with a couple more British tick hoverflies - again probably overlooked in the past.
Cheilosia pagana - look at the orange antennal blobs on that!
Platycheirus albimanus - facial knobs ....
Also some smart small weevils ...
Anthonomus pedicularius
Protapion fulvipes
Perapion violaceum
A couple of bugs ...
Stenodema laevigata
Physatocheila dumetorum
And beetles ....
Biphyllus lunatus
Oulema rufocyanea/melanopus
Sadly the last one is another aggregate - don't think the two can be separated on external characters.
| Taxon | Vernacular | Date Added | |
| 375 | Nomada flava | (bee) | 06/05/2013 |
| 374 | Anthocharis cardamines | Orange-tip | 06/05/2013 |
| 373 | Selenia tetralunaria | Purple Thorn | 05/05/2013 |
| 372 | Malachius bipustulatus | Common Malachite Beetle (larval) | 05/05/2013 |
| 371 | Biphyllus lunatus | (beetle) | 05/05/2013 |
| 370 | Ligustrum vulgare | Wild Privet | 05/05/2013 |
| 369 | Arctium minus | Lesser Burdock | 05/05/2013 |
| 368 | Sambucus nigra | Elder | 05/05/2013 |
| 367 | Sorbus aucuparia | Rowan | 05/05/2013 |
| 366 | Ranunculus repens | Creeping Buttercup | 05/05/2013 |
| 365 | Platycheirus albimanus | (hoverfly) | 05/05/2013 |
| 364 | Cheilosia pagana | (hoverfly) | 05/05/2013 |
| 363 | Cosmiotes freyerella | (micromoth) | 05/05/2013 |
| 362 | Aphodius prodromus | (beetle) | 05/05/2013 |
| 361 | Stenodema laevigata | (bug) | 05/05/2013 |
| 360 | Physatocheila dumetorum | (bug) | 05/05/2013 |
| 359 | Perapion violaceum | (beetle) | 05/05/2013 |
| 358 | Protapion fulvipes | White Clover Seed Weevil | 05/05/2013 |
| agg. | Oulema rufocyanea/melanopus | (beetle) | 05/05/2013 |
| 357 | Rhingia campestris | (hoverfly) | 05/05/2013 |
| 356 | Bombus lapidarius | Red-tailed Bumblebee | 05/05/2013 |
| 355 | Sylvia curruca | Lesser Whitethroat | 05/05/2013 |
| 354 | Cirsium arvense | Creeping Thistle | 05/05/2013 |
| 353 | Holcus lanatus | Yorkshire-fog | 05/05/2013 |
| 352 | Alopecurus pratensis | Meadow Foxtail | 05/05/2013 |
| 351 | Cirsium vulgare | Spear Thistle | 05/05/2013 |
| 350 | Geranium molle | Dove's-foot Crane's-bill | 05/05/2013 |
| 349 | Vinca minor | Lesser Periwinkle | 05/05/2013 |
| 348 | Anthonomus pedicularius | (beetle) | 05/05/2013 |
| 347 | Lasius flavus | (ant) | 04/05/2013 |
| 346 | Eupithecia absinthiata | Wormwood Pug | 03/05/2013 |
| 345 | Tipula rufina | (fly) | 03/05/2013 |
| 344 | Harpalus affinis | (beetle) | 02/05/2013 |
| 343 | Eudasyphora cyanella | (fly) | 02/05/2013 |
Common Malachite Beetle
Hi Skev
ReplyDeleteI was interested in your photos of hoverflies. I'm a part-time PhD student at Swansea University, looking at hoverflies as pollinators. Maybe we could chat about your photos at some point, as they seem to show hoverflies carrying pollen.
Could you drop me an email at 599841@swansea.ac.uk
Andrew Lucas
Hi Andrew,
ReplyDeleteI'm absolutely sure that hoverflies act as pollinators and will inadvertently carry pollen (see the Eristalis pertinax on this link for example: http://skevsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/garden-bees-and-bee-alikes.html) but other than photographing and trying to ID them I've got no greater insight than that - I'm very much an amateur naturalist rather than a professional ecologist.