INDEX

2021 Sightings

First sightings for the year, still from WEST CORNWALL unless otherwise stated .

February 18:
- Eristalis tenax male .
February 19:
- Eristalis pertinax male .
February 27:
- Episyrphus balteatus female.
- Melanostoma scalare male.
March 15:
- Platycheirus albimanus male.
March 17:
- Meliscaeva auricollis female.
- Syrphus torvus male.
March 24:
- Neoascia podagrica female.
March 25:
- Eristalis arbustorum female.
- Syrphus ribesii female.
March 29:
- Cheilosia vernalis female.
- Melangyna lasiophthalma male.
March 31:
- Eristalis nemorum male.
April 1:
- Eupeodes corollae female.
April 3:
- Criorhina ranunculi female.
- Meliscaeva cinctella male.
April 7:
- Platycheirus manicatus female.
April 8:
- Epistrophe eligans male.
April 10:
- Cheilosia pagana female.
April 13:
- Helophilus pendulus male.
April 14:
- Myathropa florea male.
- Rhingia campestris female.
April 17:
- Sphegina clunipes male.
April 19:
- Ferdinandea cuprea male.
April 21:
- Cheilosia albitarsis/ranunculi male.
April 26:
- Dasysyrphus albostriatus male and female.
- Pipiza noctiluca female.
- Sphaerophoria sp. female.
- Syritta pipiens male.
May 1:
- Platycheirus cf clypeatus female.
May 4:
- Cheilosia proxima female.
May 6:
- Merodon equestris male.
May 9:
- Dasysyrphus venustus male.
May 13:
- Anasimyia lineata male .
- Criorhina berberina male and female.
- Didea fasciata male and female.
- Melanogaster hirtella male.
- Xylota segnis female.
May 17:
- Riponnensia splendens male.
May 19:
- Cheilosia impressa female.
- Eumerus funeralis/strigatus male.
May 21:
- Cheilosia illustrata male.
- Xanthogramma pedissequum male.
May 27:
- Sericomyia silentis female.
May 28:
- Cheilosia variabilis male.
May 30:
- Cheilosia bergenstammi female.
- Parhelophilus versicolor male and female.
- Platycheirus rosarum female.
June 1:
- Microdon myrmicae/mutabilis female.
June 2:
- Chalcosyrphus nemorum male.
June 12:
- Eristalinus sepulchralis female.
- Scaeva pyrastri female.
June 15:
- Eupeodes latifasciatus female.
- Platycheirus granditarsus male .
- Volucella bombylans red-tailed female.
June 22:
- Xylota sylvarum male and female.
June 24:
- Sphaerophoria scripta male.
June 26:
- Pipizella viduata male.
June 30:
- Epistrophe grossulariae female.
- Eristalis intricaria male .
- Leucozona glaucia male.
July 17:
- Chrysogaster solstitialis female.
July 21:
- Volucella pellucens male.
August 23:
- Cheilosia scutellata female.
August 29:
- Xanthandrus comtus female.
September 11:
- Helophilus hybridus male.
September 13:
- Rhingia rostrata female.
September 14:
- Lejogaster metallina male and female.
- Volucella zonaria female.
September 16:
- Helophilus trivittatus female.