Dalgety Bay - making hay

Monday morning always means a quick attempt to gather together all the weekend's pictures and info because I stay resolutely off-PC all weekend (I already spend far too long staring at a screen). This weekend what would have been big gains (but now constitutes pedestrian plodding - thanks, Tim! ;)) made it all the more likely that I'll reach 800 by month end. Plenty happy with that. Highlight for me was Pipiza luteitarsis hand-caught in the garden, followed by another. A peek at the distribution in the hovers handbook will show that the local distribution is very limited, though there are now three squares in the county since a friend of mine photographed another in the next square last week. This is my 2nd new hover this year and number 84 for my county list (county total c.120)

There's been very limited moth action because of cold nights presumably, but I'm fine with that if things keep going this way. I've passed last year's June total for flies.

I have a collection of nice but more difficult calypterate flies that I'm going to turn my attention to now. Not just because I feel bad about backlog but because these are actually the things I was planning to eschew 1k2 to focus on this year! So things could slow down a bit this week. Mind you, the sun's still shining like crazy so you know what they say. Making hay and all that ...

Numbers:

724		coleoptera	Dalopius marginatus	A Click Beetle
725	*	diptera	Symplecta sticta	A crane fly
726	*	hemiptera	Lygus pratensis	A bug
727		hymenoptera	Andrena helvola	Coppice mining bee
728	*	diptera	Pipiza luteistarsis	A hover fly
729		diptera	Baccha elongata	Syrphidae
730		flowering plant	Allium scorodoprasum	Sand Leek
731		fungus	Puccinia porri	Leek Rust
732		diptera	Rhingia campestris	A hover fly
733		flowering plant	Equisetum palustre	Marsh Horsetail
734		flowering plant	Claytonia sibirica	Pink Purslane
735		flowering plant	Veronica hederifolia	Ivy-leaved Speedwell
736		spider	Microlinyphia pusilla	A spider
737	*	diptera	Scathophagida calida	A dung fly
738	*	diptera	Scathophagida suilla	A dung fly
739		lep-moth	Ecliptopera silaceata	Small Phoenix
740		lep-moth	Selenia dentaria	Early Thorn
741		diptera	Dolichopus ungulatus	Dolichopodidae
742		diptera	Suillia variegata	Heleomyzidae