🦟#Hoverflies Spotted🦟 Dark-saddled Whitebelt, Bumblebee Blacklet, & Yellow-barred Peat #hoverflies #flies #Insects #pollinator #nature #syrphidae #entomology #entomologist #naturalhistory

There are certainly more Marmalades out now than earlier in the season. In my garden I am into double figures. Not doubt they have moved north with the warm winds, just like the Painted Ladies and Hummingbird hawkmoths.

This has suddenly started appearing on Scilly over the past two years. Quite a number of records now.

🐞Calling all #Coleopterists 🐞 Is this the 6-spotted Longhorn now called Anoplodera sexguttata previously Leptura 6-guttata? Spotted near Rievaulx Abbey Variation one with spots fused left pic and right pic not fused. #Insects #Entomology #Entomologist #NaturalHistory #ForestFinds #HiddenWonders

🚀 Spectre 🛸 Just finished this Star Trek book – was not expecting the Cliff hanger at the end. Anybody else read it – or any in the Shatner series? What did you think? Will have to purchase the next in the series. #ScifiBooks #BookTok #SciFiReads #Scifi #BookSky #Startrek @startrekbookclub.com

Anthocharis cardamines chrysalis in my #Staffs garden on my home grown Garlic Mustard! 14/06/26 @savebutterflies.bsky.social @staffswildlife.bsky.social #Lepidoptera

Female Anasimyia contracta hoverfly from #RSPBMiddletonLakes, 14/06/26 @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #Syrphidae #Diptera

Volucella pellucens on and off Bramble at the weekend. #WildWebsWednesday #Diptera #Hoverflies

Chrysotoxum sp. (probably cautum?) Hoverfly seen on a recent walk. An attractive rather plump-looking Hoverfly! #InsectThursday #Hoverflies

🔥 Hoverfly Hotspot Found 🔥 Three hoverflies seen last few days Tuberculate Mini-stripeback, Common Compost Hoverfly & Narcissus Bulb Hoverfly morph-nobolis #hoverflies #flies #Insects #pollinator #nature #syrphidae #entomology #entomologist #naturalhistory

Two-banded wasp hoverfly (Chrysotoxum bicinctum). Another first for our #wildspace today. #irecord #hoverfly @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

#MacroMonday with a very appropriate Helophilus pendulus #hoverfly on an ox-eye daisy, also known as The Footballer! Seen yesterday in #SouthCumbria perfect as the World Cup has started! @macrohour.bsky.social

Super hoverfly finds Chris - Batman, Marmalade, Footballer, Tapered Drone-fly, Superb Dayglower, Syrphus sp., Pipiza noctiluca, the Essex RDB species Volucella inflata and more Large Pied Hoverflies than I have ever seen in one place before.

🌻 The beauty of a Cornflower 🌼 #Flowers, #Cornflower #Beauty

🍊 The Amazing Adventures of Clementine 🦋 In case you missed my recent article – read the latest about Clementine. A little Orange-tip butterfly caterpillar, in my garden. #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #Insects #Butterflies #NaturesJoy #Springwatch #Caterpillars #Orange-Tip #NatureWriting

🦹‍♂️🖤 Darth Vader Spotted in Barnsley 🦹‍♂️🖤 Maybe he was checking out the folk festival at the weekend! #StarWars #DarthVader #Darth #RevengeoftheSith #ScifiBooks #BookTok #SciFiReads #Scifi #BookSky #Shadows

🔍 Favourite Sightings of the Week so far 📸 Sharp Tailed Bee (Coelioxys sp) , Common Swift Moth (Korscheltellus lupulina) and Painted Lady Butterfly (Vanessa cardui) What’s been your favourite sightings of the week? #Insects #InsectLife #Bugsky #Insects #Bees #Moths #Butterflies

🦟Hoverflies on the Wing🦟 Can you spot all five? #hoverflies #flies #Insects #pollinators #nature #syrphidae #entomology #entomologist #naturalhistory #Heinekinfly #Whitebelt #Humming #Flowerfly #Pithead #Narcissus #Bulbs

Day 4, #30DaysWild. Very excited to see this on the Brambles this morning (along with many sleeping Bumblebees), think it’s a male Riponnensia splendens, a new one for me. 💚 #Hoverflies #Diptera

🍊 Clementine’s cousin – Terry! 🦋 Found not a million miles on the TPT yesterday. Doubt it’s the same birth mother. #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #Naturewriting #Insects #Moths #Butterflies #Nature #NaturesJoy #Springwatch #Caterpillars #Orange-Tip

Another Xanthogramma citrofasciatum (Barred Ant-hill Hoverfly) spotted on 31th May about a mile from my first one. Just verified on #irecord

🍊 Clementine Weekly Update 🦋 Day 23 she is now 3cm in length. She shed her skin on May 28th and has grown noticeably over the weekend. Excited to see what happens next. #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #Insects #Butterflies #Nature #NaturesJoy #Springwatch #Caterpillars #Orange-Tip

🎲 The Fate of the Fellowship 🎲 Visit to the Treehouse Sheffield to try the board game. Great time… we destroyed ‘My Precious’ first go – must have been a fluke. #Boardgamecafe #FateoftheFellowship #LOTR #Tolkein #Fantasy #BoardGames #TabletopGaming #PlayMoreGames #GameNightVibes #BoardGameAddict

🦟New Hoverfly Found 🦟 The Banded Demoiselle of the hoverfly world? Big-thighed Pithead (Pipiza austriaca) Not a great photo, best I could do. Never seen this before – Tunnock for me - Yippee #hoverflies #flies #Insects #pollinator #nature #syrphidae #entomology #entomologist #naturalhistory

🦟 Nature’s micro calligraphers 🦟 These minute Hoverflies are difficult to spot in the field – being the the size of a grain of rice. Check out my factsheet below to learn more. #Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Syrphidae #NatureIllustration #NaturalHistory #Scicomm #ArtAppreciation

🚀 Invasion 🛸 Just read this wonderful Star Trek book – felt like a lost episode. Anybody else read it – or any of the others in this series? #ScifiBooks #BookTok #SciFiReads #Scifi #BookSky #Startrek @startrekbookclub.com

Super hoverflies

Four hoverflies from this morning's walk around Gamlingay Wood LNR, S. Cambridgeshire: Ferdinandea cuprea Criorhina floccosa Volucella bombylans Volucella pellucens #Diptera #Syrphidae #Hoverflies

🦋 Butterfly Conservation are looking for that perfect match 🦋 Have you voted for Britain’s Favourite Butterfly? I have - wonder if you can guess what I chose? What will you choose? If you’re not sure take the quiz to match you to a butterfly.... #Butterflies #NaturalHistory #Insects

🍊 Clementine Weekly Update 🦋 Day 18 of her caterpillar life, now 1.5 cm in length. Will she make Day 25 'pupation day'? – let's hope so! #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #Naturewriting #Insects #Butterflies #Nature #NaturesJoy #Springwatch #Caterpillars #Orange-Tip She gets my vote!

🐦 Freiston, Frampton & Fen-Flies 🦟 A trip to see some amazing wildlife. Hope you will join me to discover what I found #Hoverflies #Insects #Flies #NaturalHistory #NatureWalk #Bugsky #BugSpotting #Birdwatching #Birding #NatureWriting #ForestFinds #WaterVoles #Birds

🍊 Clementine Weekly Update 🦋 Day 18 of her caterpillar life, now 1.5 cm in length. Will she make Day 25 'pupation day'? – let's hope so! #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #Naturewriting #Insects #Butterflies #Nature #NaturesJoy #Springwatch #Caterpillars #Orange-Tip She gets my vote!

Hoverfly in Ely this week, wondering about Epistrophe diaphana? #Hoverflies #Diptera @hoverflyspotter.bsky.social @ianbeavis.bsky.social @willieg.bsky.social

🦟Missing Marmalade Found! 🦟 Finally spotted a Marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) at a Premier Inn, Boston. Next is to find one in South Yorkshire….. Numbers are low this year so far? #hoverflies #flies #Insects #pollinator #nature #syrphidae #entomology #naturalHistory

#worldbeeday today is about all pollinators, bees, hoverflies, beetles & the rest! Reminds us that 75% of crops need pollination, & there has been an over 60% reduction in flying insects in last 20 yrs in UK, plus need the biodiversity

A favourite hoverfly photographed this lunchtime. Male and female Brachypalpoides lentus on Dog Rose at the edge of Gamlingay Wood LNR, Cambridgeshire (20/5/26). #Syrphidae #Hoverflies #Diptera

🔍 For those that missed my post earlier this week. 🔍 May’s sighting’s part 1 - Bears, Green Tigers, & Wolfs Milk. #Hoverflies #Insects #Flies #Butterflies #Beetles #Fungi #Trees #Entomology #NaturalHistory #NatureWalk #Bugsky #BugSpotting #Birdwatching #Birding #NatureWriting #ForestFinds

🍊 Clementine! Update 🦋 Just returned from a long weekend away, hoping my larval Orange-tip butterfly would still be there… and she was! Still on the plant where she first emerged. #NaturalHistory #Insects #Butterflies #Nature #Pollinators Full Story 👇 hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com/2026/05/natu...

🔍 Favourite Sightings of the Week so far 📸 Green tiger (Cicindela campestris), Ashy mining bee (Andrena cineraria), Cantharis pellucida. Bearfly – (Criorhina floccosa) & Cardinal beetle (Pyrochroa serraticornis) #Syrphidae #Hoverflies #flies #Insects #InsectLife #Bugsky #Insects #Beetles

Blog of my first half of May in Beth Chatto Gardens. Sawfly Central! www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/the-wild-sid... #NatureWriting

🍊 Say Hello to Clementine! 🦋 A visit by an Orange-tip butterfly to the garden, resulted in an egg, which then hatched into Clementine. Come discover one of nature’s joys. #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #Naturewriting #Insects #Moths #Butterflies #Nature #Pollinators #NaturesJoy #Spring

Brilliant. How does that compare with previous years

britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/or... Orange-tip. It’s got to be Orange tip since I am father of a little Orange-tip caterpillar in my garden at the moment. See my article to learn the full story. hoverflyspotter.substack.com/p/natures-jo...

🧦 New Sock spotted 🧦 The Narcissus Bulb fly (Merodon equestris) – the hoverfly that wears its own socks. Curious click below. 👇 hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com/2026/05/narc... #Hoverfly #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #StayCurious #InsectLife #Insects #Pollinator #GardenWildlife #Bulbs

🦟 Hoverfly Aerobics 🦟 Here are some early morning exercises you could try Let’s stretch to the right – hold it for 10 secs then Let’s stretch to the left – hold it for 10 secs Now you are ready to go – enjoy your day. #Hoverflies #Yoga #Exercises #Health&WelllBeing

A few insects at #WyverLaneNR today. Cassida vibex, Dock Bug, Cheilosia albitarsis /ranunculi agg and Red Cardinal Beetle. @belperbirder.bsky.social @richardttaylor.bsky.social @cliveaderbys.bsky.social @danmartinwildlife.bsky.social @derbysnottsentsoc.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social

Could this be a female Crysotoxum arcuatum? Globular in shape and third antennae segment longer. -Gentleshaw Common, Staffordshire, 08/05/2026 @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @lisawilliams30.bsky.social #hoverflies

That orange is loud had to put my 😎 on.

🌙🦋 Hey I like it in here!….. 🌙🦋 A clouded drab just taking it easy – chilling, sunbathing. #Moths #Lepidoptera #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #StayCurious

Woohoo, Male Chalcosyrphus eunotus hoverfly! Seen at #RSPBMiddletonLakes, 09/05/26 @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social This made my day! #Syrphidae #Diptera