Yesterday’s walk saw me exploring new trails – always exciting as I never know what I might find. I’d walked through part of Casehill Woods a couple of times before but in the winter months, when the ground was sodden and heavy with slippery mud, so it was nice to return for a summer visit – the first of many, I think. I particularly wanted to check out the woodland rides, for butterflies and other beasties – and a beastie is what I found there, a new-to-me and new-to-my-local-10km-recording-square hoverfly, Volucella inflata.
This gorgeous golden creature favours woodlands, and feeds on the flowers of Bramble and shrubs like Wild privet and Dogwood, so the habitat at Casehill Woods is perfect for it. These hoverflies should be on the wing for a few more weeks yet so I’ll be keeping an eye out for more when next I walk these paths.
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That is a real beauty.
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Glad you like it. 🙂
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A wonderful colour. I specially like hoverflies.
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Glad you liked it, Lucy. I also like hoverflies – colourful and not too many species to get your head around.
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Too many for my head – I have to look them up and ask advice every time.
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Yes, 240-something species is a bit much for my brain too, but there are maybe 20 I see more often that I can mostly remember. I had a lot of help from the Hoverflies Facebook group when I first started looking at these beasties but I’m not on Facebook any more.
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That is very pretty!
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It certainly was. I’m going to try to find more. 🙂
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