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Welcome to HRS

Welcome to the Hoverfly Recording Scheme

The hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) are a family of attractive and familiar flies that we all see visiting flowers. Gardeners welcome them because many of the black-and-yellow striped species have larvae which prey on greenfly and bacause of their important role in pollination.

The National Recording Scheme, launched in 1976, aims to collate information about their ecology and distribution.

On this web site you can find:

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lejops vittatus by sam smith

lejops vittatus
Posted by sam smith

List of hoverflies for your postcode
Enter the first part of your postcode:   
For example, if your postcode is "AA3 1YZ", you should enter "AA3".

News
Announcement: Hoverfly training
Posted: Roger K.A. Morris @ Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:23 am
Stuart and I have agreed to run a course on hoverfly identification at Cardiff Museum on 10 and 11 April 2010. This is a course we have now run on a good number of occasions and we like to think we have refined it to a reasonably high standard. It i...

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Announcement: A new hoverfly book
Posted: Roger K.A. Morris @ Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:54 pm
Revised news (11 Jan 2009)

We have made useful progress but the ideas have changed a bit. We now intend to produce two books; a fairly simple one that is aimed at novices interested in gardens and urban parks, and the other a full-scale WILDguide...

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Announcement: Downtime!
Posted: stuart @ Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:40 pm
Sorry! This site was not available for some days.

I was away when the renewal notification arrived for the domain name "hoverfly.org.uk", it expired and was suspended. All sorted now for another two years ...

Stuart

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