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Marmalade Hoverflies on Fox-and-cubs
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East Dunbartonshire, Milngavie and Bearsden
Marmalade Hoverflies (Episyrphus balteatus) drinking nectar from Fox-and-Cubs (Pilosella aurantiaca). This is our most common hoverfly. They are on the wing throughout the year but can be seen in large numbers like this in the summer. Fox and Cubs, Orange Hawkbit or Orange Hawkweed (Pilosella aurantiaca or the synonym Hieracium aurantiacum) is aggregated under Hawkweeds and / or Hawkbits in the genus Pilosella, or alternatively Hieracium agg. The botanical classification seems complicated at the very least! Picture taken by Sarah Longrigg in Milngavie.
02 March 2020
Common blue sow thistle, Baron's Haugh
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North Lanarkshire - Baron's Haugh and Dalzell Woods
A Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) on Common Blue Sow Thistle (Cicerbita macrophylla). This plant has become naturalised in the UK and is most commonly seen in waste ground and hedge banks. This photo was taken at Baron's Haugh RSPB Nature Reserve, Motherwell, Lanarkshire.
21 August 2016
Marmalade Hoverfly
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Falkirk - Bo'ness and Kinneil
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) at Bo'ness
05 August 2016
Marmalade hoverfly on Creeping thistle
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Loch Lomond - RSPB Loch Lomond
The Marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) is our most common hoverfly. Seen in large numbers during the summer. Adults feed on nectar and the larvae feed on aphids. Photographed here on Creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense) at RSPB Loch Lomond Nature Reserve.
