Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinid Phasia hemiptera female
Posted by blowave on 01-08-2009 16:21
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Hi,
I think I am correct with this ID, I checked the Tachinid site and found there are no records there for Lincolnshire. Total records very few in fact!
Taken on 31st July 2009 on the road verge outside my house a few miles south of Lincoln UK. I had not mowed the grass this year and only a small strip was cut by the Council, luckily I have a few Ragwort plants which were untouched!
Janet :D
Posted by blowave on 01-08-2009 16:22
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Posted by blowave on 01-08-2009 16:23
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Posted by blowave on 01-08-2009 16:24
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Posted by ChrisR on 01-08-2009 18:26
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Yes - it's a
Phasia hemiptera (female). Lincolnshire is probably just an area that we don't receive many records from but it is getting commoner in England so a record like yours is good to plot any spread :) Can you PM me the grid reference?
The relative absence of nectar plants in the countryside is something I have been moaning on about for ages. Around here you're lucky to get an untouched roadside verge these days and patches of nectar flowers are quite uncommon :( Well-meaning but misguided people often pull up Ragwort (to save the horses - even if no horses would ever eat it), Creeping Thistle (can't have it 'taking over' can we - fat chance!), or hack down umbellifers - and these can be the only plants that are in flower for miles around!
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Posted by blowave on 01-08-2009 23:47
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Hi Chris, yes I will give you the reference, same as the other I sent for Mintho rufiventris (give me a little while, things to do first). I can send you the full size pics too if you want to use them.
Yes, it is not a good thing when everyone is being made to believe wildflowers are bad! :|