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Welcome to the Hoverfly Recording SchemeThe 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.
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A picture from the photo gallery Melangyna umbellatarum On Wild Parsnip, Reading, September 6th, 2005
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| Announcement: More Hoverfly Newsletters available for download |
| Posted: stuart @ Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:32 am |
Hoverfly Newsletter 1-27 are now available to download.
Thanks to Francis Gilbert who scanned them and contributed them as PDF files for the web-site.
Stuart
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| Announcement: Introductory Diptera ID course March 2008 |
| Posted: Roger K.A. Morris @ Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:01 am |
Just in case any readers are interested, Stuart, Alan and I are running an introductory course on identification of flies at Preston Montford in March 2008. Whilst this is intended as a broad introduction to flies, it is likely to be helpful to many...
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| Announcement: Platycheirus scutatus group key |
| Posted: stuart @ Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:33 pm |
Here is a key to males and females of the Platycheirus scutatus group extracted from the Finnish Hoverfly book (Haarto & Kerppola, 2007).
Compared to Stubbs & Falk (2002), this is much simpler and includes a key to females - which are not ...
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| Announcement: Key to female Sphaerophoria |
| Posted: stuart @ Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:29 pm |
Here is an extract to the key to females of Sphaerophoria from the Finnish Hoverfly book (Haarto & Kerppola, 2007). The figures in the original are in colour, these have been converted to 16-greyscale images.
All the British species except S. ...
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