Dalgety Bay - 2/3 of the way

So after a sunny day and two half hour sessions swishing a net at my cypresses I tipped over the month target of 667 with some room to spare. Most species were expected and even long overdue, but there was a nice new anthomyiid fly for Fife. Well, I say nice ... it looks a lot like a lot of the other ones. It's nothing spectacular range-wise as it seems this just fills in a gap in the middle. See more here.

I did a quick scan of the fly families I would need to record to make 200 this year and it will stretch me a bit, which is as intended. I've recorded 3 more spp of anthomyiid already than I did in the whole of last year!

Anyway, here's the lovely nettle-lover Nedyus quadromaculatus

N.quadromaculatus

Numbers:

660		diptera	Anthomyia procellaris	A flower fly
661		diptera	Melanostoma mellinum	A hoverfly
662		diptera	Meliscaeva auricollis	A hoverfly
663		diptera	Mycophaga testacea	A flower fly
664	*	diptera	Paradelia intersecta	A flower fly
665		diptera	Parasyrphus punctulatus	A hoverfly
666		diptera	Syrphus ribesii	A hoverfly
667		hymenoptera	Bombus lapidarius	Large Red-tailed Bumblebee
668		bird	Phasianus colchicus	Pheasant
669		coleoptera	Nedyus quadrimaculatus	A weevil
670		hemiptera	Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale	Hawthorn Shieldbug
671		lep-moth	Chloroclysta siterata	Red-green Carpet
672		fungus	Coprinus plicatilis	A mushroom