Dalgety Bay, Fife - Set Phasias to stun!

Flies definitely stole the limelight yesterday with my first female Phasia hemiptera - what a corker! The male I found a couple of years back and that was a good day too. Both of them were on hogweed.

A few minutes later, above a rotten log on a mayweed flower, where these things like to hang about, was the louse fly Rhinophora lepida. The only other louse fly I've seen was also above a rotten log on the shore edge - plenty of victims to be had! On NBN this species is southern only, but the draft key intriguingly says distribution is "north to Fife".

A bonus from yesterday was a grass, pre-identified by the local woodland group, which I just had to go and see. I need to hook up with whoever ID'd it so they can show me the 20 others I don't have yet.

Phasia hemiptera female

Ouch!

Rhinophora lepida

Additions:

743	Rinodina sophodes	A lichen
744	Phasia hemiptera	A tachinid fly
745	Rhinophora lepida	A louse fly
746	Campanula rotundifolia	Harebell
747	Phleum bertolonii	Smaller Cat's-tail