INDEX
2016 Sightings
As with previous logs, this is mostly first sightings for the year.
Since last flying season, several good local sites have suffered degradation.
So, no thanks to SSE, Thames Water, Reading Borough Council and the manager of a Pheasant shoot.
- January 25:
- Episyrphus balteatus female.
- February 18:
- Eristalis tenax male and female.
- February 23:
- Meliscaeva auricollis male .
- March 11:
- Melangyna quadrimaculata male and female.
- March 17:
- Eristalis pertinax male and female.
- March 25:
- Melangyna lasiophthalma female.
- Parasyrphus punctulatus male and female.
- Platycheirus albimanus male.
- April 1:
- Eupeodes luniger female.
- Syrphus torvus male.
- April 5:
- Cheilosia vernalis male.
- Melanostoma scalare male.
- April 9:
- Cheilosia pagana male and female.
- April 10:
- Criorhina ranunculi red-tail male, white-tail female.
- April 12:
- Epistrophe eligans male and female.
- Helophilus pendulus male and female.
- April 17:
- Sphaerophoria scripta male.
- April 19:
- Platycheirus ambiguus male.
- Syrphus ribesii female.
- April 20:
- Cheilosia proxima female.
- Neoascia podagrica male .
- Rhingia campestris female.
- Rhingia rostrata male .
- April 21:
- April 27:
- Eristalis arbustorum male and female.
- April 30:
- Baccha elongata male.
- Brachyopa pilosa male .
- Brachyopa scutellaris male.
- Chalcosyrphus nemorum male .
- Dasysyrphus venustus female.
- Leucozona lucorum female .
- Meligramma euchromum male.
- Neoascia tenur male and female.
- May 1:
- Melangyna cincta male.
- Xylota segnis male.
- May 3:
- Cheilosia variabilis male and female.
- Melanostoma mellinum male .
- Tropidia scita male.
- May 4:
- Cheilosia albitarsis/ranunculi male.
- Platycheirus tarsalis male.
- May 5:
- Cheilosia illustrata male, very early.
- Epistrophe melanostoma female.
- May 6:
- Anasimyia lineata male.
- Helophilus hybridus male.
- May 7:
- Xanthogramma citrofasciatum male .
- May 12:
- Pipizella viduata male and female.
- May 13:
- May 14:
- Ferdinandea cuprea female .
- Heringia sp. male .
- May 15:
- Epistrophe nitidicollis female.
- Melanogaster hirtella female .
- Parhelophilus versicolor male.
- May 16:
- Eristalinus sepulchralis female.
- Eristalis horticola male.
- May 17:
- Brachyopa bicolor male.
- Brachypalpus laphriformis female.
- Criorhina floccosa male.
- Volucella bombylans red-tailed male.
- May 19:
- Anasimyia contracta male .
- May 22:
- Platycheirus fulviventris female .
- May 23:
- Brachyopa insensilis male.
- Dasysyrphus albostriatus female .
- Eristalis nemorum male.
- Eumerus funeralis/strigatus female.
- Melangyna labiatarum male .
- Parhelophilus frutetorum male.
- May 24:
- Criorhina asilica female.
- Merodon equestris male.
- Pipiza luteitarsis female.
- Pipiza noctiluca female.
- May 26:
- Portevinia maculata male and female .
- May 28:
- Xanthogramma pedissequum female .
- June 2:
- Cheilosia impressa male.
- Eupeodes corollae male and female.
- Syritta pipiens male.
- June 5:
- Platycheirus cf. scutatus female .
- June 8:
- Riponnensia splendens male .
- June 15:
- Chrysotoxum festivum male .
- Volucella pellucens female .
- June 21:
- Chrysogaster solstitialis female .
- Chrysotoxum verralli male.
- Eristalis intricaria male.
- Leucozona laternaria female.
- Volucella zonaria male.
- June 25:
- June 26:
- Chrysotoxum bicinctum female .
- June 27:
- Myolepta dubia male .
- Volucella inflata male and female.
- July 5:
- Didea fasciata male.
- Epistrophe grossulariae male.
- Eumerus ornatus male and female.
- July 6:
- Sericomyia silentis male .
- July 14:
- Platycheirus cf. clypeatus male and female .
- July 15:
- Cheilosia scutellata male .
- July 19:
- Eristalinus aeneus male and female .
- July 20:
- Platycheirus rosarum female .
- July 22:
- Platycheirus granditarsus female .
- July 25:
- July 26:
- Cheilosia bergenstammi male .
- Cheilosia soror male .
- July 30:
- August 5:
- Sphaerophoria taeniata male .
- August 6:
- Eupeodes latifasciatus female .
- Helophilus trivittatus female .
- August 25:
- Melangyna umbellatarum female .
- September 1:
- Lejogaster metallina female .