INDEX

2012 Sightings

As with last year's effort, this is mostly first sightings.

January 5:
- Episyrphus balteatus male.
January 7:
- Episyrphus balteatus 25 male and female on Ivy in cemetery.
- Meliscaeva auricollis male and female, Spring form, var. maculicornis.
January 13:
- Eristalis tenax male.
March 7:
- Eristalis pertinax male.
March 14:
- Cheilosia vernalis female.
- Cheilosia pagana male. Female on April 1.
March 19:
- Cheilosia grossa male.
- Criorhina ranunculi red-tailed male.
- Platycheirus albimanus males.
March 22:
- Parasyrphus punctulatus males.
March 23:
- Melanostoma scalare male.
March 25:
- Eupeodes luniger males and female.
March 26:
- Cheilosia variabilis male.
March 30:
- Criorhina ranunculi white-tailed and red-tailed females.
- Epistrophe eligans male. Female on April 2.
- Melangyna cincta male.
- Syrphus torvus male. Female on April 1.
April 1:
- Sphaerophoria scripta males.
April 3:
- Eristalis intricarius female.
April 6:
- Helophilus pendulus female.
- Neoascia tenur female. Many males on April 13.
- Platycheirus scutatus male.
- Platycheirus fulviventris male.
April 13:
- Baccha elongata male.
- Chalcosyrphus nemorum male.
- Cheilosia proxima male.
- Dasysyrphus albostriatus male.
April 15:
- Eristalis arbustorum male and female.
- Helophilus hybridus males and females.
- Neoascia meticulosa males.
- Rhingia campestris males and females.
April 16:
- Eupeodes latifasciatus female.
- Meligramma euchromum male on Field Maple. Female May 12. Not seen this species before.
April 17:
- Ferdinandea cuprea male.
- Syrphus ribesii female. Hind femur entirely yellow.
April 21:
- Brachyopa pilosa males.
- Epistrophe melanostoma male. Female on May 11.
- Leucozona lucorum female.
- Myathropa florea male.
April 24:
- Neoascia podagrica males and females.
April 30:
- Eristalis horticola male.
May 1:
- Cheilosia albitarsis/ranunculi female.
- Melanostoma mellinum males and females.
May 5:
- Rhingia rostrata male.
May 11:
- Brachyopa scutellaris males and female.
- Cheilosia albipila female.
- Criorhina floccosa females.
- Dasysyrphus venustus males and females.
- Platycheirus peltatus male.
- Xylota segnis male.
May 12:
- Heringia (Neocnemodon) sp. females.
- Pipiza noctiluca female.
- Syrphus vitripennis female.
May 13:
- Melanogaster hirtella female.
May 16:
- Pipizella viduata male.
May 18:
- Cheilosia bergenstammi females.
May 21:
- Platycheirus manicatus female.
- Xanthogramma citrofasciatum female.
May 22:
- Brachyopa bicolor males. Scutellum half-dusted, circular antennal pit.
- Portevinia maculata males.
May 23:
- Brachyopa insensilis males.Scutellum edge dusted, no antennal pit.
May 24:
- Merodon equestris female.
May 25:
- Chrysogaster virescens female.
- Syritta pipiens males.
- Tropidia scita male.
- Xanthogramma pedissequum male.
May 28:
- Eumerus funeralis male.
May 29:
- Didea fasciata male.
- Epistrophe nitidicollis female.
- Lejogaster metallina female.
- Sericomyia silentis male.
- Volucella pellucens male.
May 30:
- Anasimyia contracta male.
- Anasimyia lineata male.
- Cheilosia impressa male.
- Criorhina berberina female.
- Melangyna labiatarum male.
- Parhelophilus sp. male.
June 1:
- Volucella bombylans White-tailed male. Female on June 10.
June 2:
- Caliprobola speciosa males.
- Eristalis nemorum male.
- Microdon analis female. Male on June 4.
June 6:
- Chrysotoxum cautum female.
- Eupeodes corollae female.
June 10:
- Epistrophe grossulariae male.
- Leucozona laternaria female.
- Parhelophilus versicolor female.
- Volucella bombylans red-tailed male.
June 13:
- Anasimyia lunulata female. Face less extended than A. lineata, hind femur yellow along dorsal line.
June 14:
- Chrysotoxum bicinctum male.
- Volucella inflata male.
June 15:
- Cheilosia illustrata male.
- Epistrophe diaphana male.
- Parhelophilus frutetorum males and females.
June 18:
- Cheilosia soror male.
- Chrysogaster solstitialis male.
- Xylota sylvarum female.
June 19:
- Chrysotoxum verralli male. Female on July 8.
- Sericomyia lappona male.
June 20:
- Eristalinus aeneus males and females.
- Helophilus trivittatus female.
June 23:
- Neoascia interrupta female.
June 28:
- Scaeva pyrastri female.
July 1:
- Volucella zonaria male.
July 8:
- Pipizella virens female.
July 10:
- Volucella inanis male.
July 13:
- Chrysotoxum festivum male.
July 27:
- Second brood Cheilosia bergenstammi male.
- Myolepta dubia male.
July 30:
- Meliscaeva cinctella male.
August 2:
- Cheilosia scutellata males.
August 10:
- Scaeva selenitica male.
August 12:
- Eristalinus sepulchralis male.
August 20:
- Melangyna umbellatarum female.
- Second brood Rhingia campestris male.
September 3:
- Second brood Platycheirus peltatus males.
September 5:
- Paragus sp. female.
September 7:
- Second brood? Eumerus funeralis pair.
September 8:
- Second brood Dasysyrphus albostriatus female.
October 4:
- Second brood Didea fasciata female.
- Second brood Rhingia rostrata female. Another on October 16.
October 30:
- Second brood Syrphus torvus female.
November 2:
- Late flier: Didea fasciata male.