Ron Bury's Wildlife: 06/01/2018

Monday, 25 June 2018

Great Pied Hoverfly (Volucella pellucens) west of Loch Ness

Volucella pellucens © Ron Bury

I'm sorry for the lack of posts over the last two and a half months but I was away most of April and busy catching up after I returned so apart from anything else I missed posting a number of press releases from TFL and the HWDT. I might put a couple of the more significant ones up but thought I'd start off with some images and a video of a female Splayed Deerfly Chrysops caecutiens feeding on a blue cornflower.

Well I thought it was until Neil Anderson pointed out in the comments below that it was the Great Pied Hoverfly Volucella pellucens which is the very opposite of the rarity I thought I'd found.

I should have paid more attention and feeling suitably

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