Sarah

Casual birder, hardcore guller.

Hoverfly botherer.

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@birder_bee Ooh! Lovely!

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@homebargains Can you please fix this mistake on your website? It's making my eye twitch. Thanks!

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

Look at this beauty!! An Eriozona syrphoides hoverfly.
@WildFozzy and I somehow manifested this sighting by reading up on them in my hoverfly book the night before 😂 unfortunately it didn't work when we tried it again for a different one the next day!
@DipteristsForum #hoverfly

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@WildFozzy @RodleyNR @DipteristsForum I know! I was going to say that! And also, where were all the pertinax? Couldn't move for them when we went out last week!

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

Some Eristalis species from a hot day today at @RodleyNR. Arbustorum, nemorum and tenax!
#hoverflies @DipteristsForum

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@WildFozzy @Odo_Nata10a @Buzz_dont_tweet @NatureUK My first thought was epistrophe grossulariae and then I had no further thoughts 🤣

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@WildFozzy @birder_bee Hoverflies are the best bees 😂

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@birder_bee So many times I've been told, "you'll change your mind one day!". No I bloody won't!

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@SteveRoutl74122 @WildFozzy @NosterfieldLNR @DipteristsForum @HarrogateNats I hate it when that happens!

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@SteveRoutl74122 @WildFozzy @NosterfieldLNR @DipteristsForum @HarrogateNats They are! I've still not seen a Xanthogramma unfortunately. Hopefully soon!

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@SteveRoutl74122 @WildFozzy @NosterfieldLNR @DipteristsForum @HarrogateNats Nope, it's definitely chrysotoxum bicinctum! Xanthogramma don't have the long antennae.

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@anon_opin The long antennae suggest otherwise...

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@djrwoodhouse1 Very nice!!

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@birder_bee @UoL_Sus Guess what? Today I got fooled by a volucella bombylans 🤣

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@birder_bee @UoL_Sus To be fair I always mistake bees for hoverflies 🤣

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@birder_bee @UoL_Sus I would never be fooled! I love merodon equestris - they come in lots of different colourways!

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

Another great weekend full of sun and hoverflies with @WildFozzy!
Rhingia campestris, tropidia scita, leogaster metallina and xylota segnis 😍
@DipteristsForum #hoverflies #syrphidae

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@lisajrwilliams @RSPBMiddleton @DipteristsForum @WildFozzy This is what we saw today and I failed to get a photograph of!

[Sarah @schoene_moewe]

@birder_bee The birds, bees and hoverflies are the only children we need!