20th June - Spent a couple of hours looking for inverts, the first hour the sun was out and I walked the southern path beside the railway line. It was along here that most species were seen.
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| Xyphosia miliaria |
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| Xyphosia miliaria |
Xyphosia miliaria is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Length: 4-6 mm. This fruit fly is mostly orange with black patterned wings, typical of this family. Found on thistles where it causes galls to form on the host plant. Can be seen May – September. Common and widespread over much of Britain.
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| Large Skipper Butterfly |
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| female Green-veined White Butterfly |
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| Helophilus hybridus male |
Helophilus hybridus has a wing length 8.5 to 11.25 mm. In size and general appearance this species is similar to H. pendulus. The male is usually distinctive in having continuously broad yellow sides to tergites 2 and 3, whereas there is a dividing black bar near the posterior edge of tergite 2 in the female, and in both sexes of H. pendulus. The hind tibia of H. hybridus normally has the distal 2/3 black. Around pond and ditch margins where the water is shallow, and submerged grass grows on the blackish mud. Can be seen April to October with a peak in July and August. Larvae have been observed feeding in the decaying rhizomes of Bulrush. Widespread but sometimes local in Britain.
