Sun Fly Heliophilus pendulas
These tiny cocoons are on a variety of plantlife at Peacock Lodge and looked like seed pods at first glance, especially as they were on top of their anchorage. Each had a green grub inside probably Hoverfly larvae
all Frampton Park
May-June 2008
Scaeva pyrastri or Eupiodes luniger
Sheridan Close 27/6/08 & 1/7/08
Frampton Natural History Pages
small creatures page 3
Hoverflies
all photographs DS
identifications gratefully received
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Crickets & Grasshoppers
Beetles
Bees & Wasps
Cocoons, Snails, Mayflies
spiders
The background photo is from a pony paddock at Frampton House May 2008
Marmalade Fly Episyrphus balteatus
Myothropa florea? (M) Sheridan Close 3/7/08
Sphaerophoria scripta (F)
Sheridan Close 3/7/08
a distinct yellow band round edges of abdomen
very fast flight and very brief visits to flowers
Meliscaeva auricollis Metlands 3/7/08
Melastoma scalare
Sheridan Close 3/7/08
Dasysyrphus tricintum
Sheridan Close
02/-8/2010
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