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Welcome to HRS

Welcome to the Hoverfly Recording Scheme

The hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) are a family of attractive and familiar flies that we all see visiting flowers. Gardeners welcome them because many of the black-and-yellow striped species have larvae which prey on greenfly and bacause of their important role in pollination.

The National Recording Scheme, launched in 1976, aims to collate information about their ecology and distribution.

On this web site you can find:

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Platycheirus granditarsus by conopid

Platycheirus granditarsus Berrinton Pool, Shropshire 2003
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List of hoverflies for your postcode
Enter the first part of your postcode:   
For example, if your postcode is "AA3 1YZ", you should enter "AA3".

News
Announcement: Hoverfly course in Bangor, North Wales 7-8 April 2012
Posted: Roger K.A. Morris @ Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:58 am
Stuart Ball and I will be running our Introduction to Hoverflies course at Bangor in North Wales on 7-8 April. The course organiser is Richard Gallon who is keen to hear from people who would like to attend. Richard can be contacted at:

richard....

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Announcement: Hoverfly course at Natural History Museum (4-5 February 2012
Posted: Roger K.A. Morris @ Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:17 pm
We will be running our standard two-day course on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th February in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided, and you can bring your own packed lunch...

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Announcement: Maps working again!
Posted: stuart @ Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:48 pm
After many attempts, I have finally managed to fix the maps and they are working again. The summary of 10km squares on which they are based has been updated so now reflects the data used for the new Atlas (and, in fact, also includes the handful of r...

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Announcement: Update - Britain's Hoverflies
Posted: Roger K.A. Morris @ Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:38 am
Just a quick line to advise that we are progressing but it is slow. Unfortunately, we took on too much this year!

We are finalising the text with the publishers and are close to the project going to the designers. This means that the book will pr...

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Announcement: Hoverfly training
Posted: Roger K.A. Morris @ Sat Nov 13, 2010 10:38 pm
We have now completed the training session for winter 2010-2011 and are thinking about winter 2011-2012. This next year we want to focus on parts of the country where there have not been training initiatives. So, the North-East, North-West, Devon/Co...

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