Two more Dark-edged beeflies this morning, at The Kymin in Penarth, before the weather turned to rain, again. #beeflywatch
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1st garden Bombylius major of the year, a male, seen 15/03/26 @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @kitenet.bsky.social #beeflywatch @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
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A fluffy brown and white insect with dark-edged wings (blurred in the photo due to the speed of flapping) taking nectar from a purple-flowered Grape Hyacinth
It’s great to have Dark-edged Bee-flies whizzing around in the spring sunshine again. Super fluffy!
#BeeFlyWatch
#DailyNature
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We now have two species of bee-fly on the wing, check the wing markings next time you see one 👍 ID guide at dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watc... #BeeFlyWatch
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My first Dark-edged beefly (Bombylius major) of the year in Dingle Park, Penarth (south Wales coast) this afternoon. @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social #beeflywatch
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I have been graced by her presence today at the Cambridge botanical garden #BeeFlyWatch
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Love this 😍 Bee-flies are known as woolly-flies or woolly-hoverers on the continent #BeeFlyWatch
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Tuschezeichnung eines sitzenden Wollschwebers.
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WOLLSCHWEBER / BEE FLY (Bombyliidae)
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#penandink
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#kleineKunstklasse
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One for @flygirlnhm.bsky.social and anyone on #beeflywatch (don’t know how many #dipterists have seen this but can’t face scrolling 1.5k followers!).
#diptera in art!
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A male Dark-edged Bee-fly feeding from a grape hyacinth flower. He is a large fly with a rounded body covered in mid-brown hair, and a hairy face. He has long, thin legs and a very long proboscis, which he holds out in front like a narwhal's tusk. He has brown eyes, which meet each other on top of his head, and his wings have a dark, scalloped mark along the leading edge.
My first Dark-edged Bee-fly of the year, a week earlier than last year's.
@uk-soldierflies.bsky.social
#insects #invertebrates #Bombyliusmajor #DarkEdgedBeeFly #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders #InsectThursday #beeflywatch
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Dark-edged Bee-fly, male. I do love these cheeky chaps - they whizz around with their probosis sticking out and snacking on the spring flowers, the females lay their eggs in solitary bee so nests. 5/3/26 N Cotswolds garden #beeflywatch
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The 1st #BeeFlyWatch record in England this year was on 25 February, and we now have the 1st in Scotland on 3 March (@ellenwilson.bsky.social) and in Wales on 4 March (@liamolds.bsky.social) - Ellen's bee-fly is the earliest ever recorded in Scotland, by almost two weeks bsky.app/profile/liam...
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1st Bombylius major of the year, 4 days earlier than last year, 04/03/26, Tamworth, #Staffs, and its a Male! @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social #beeflywatch @kitenet.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #beefly
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UK map showing overall distribution of Dark-edged Bee-fly (pale grey dots) and records so far for 2026 (black dots)
A very freshly emerged male Dark-edged Bee-fly, photo by Allan Burrows in Hertfordshire
Several more bee-flies seen today - hurray 😍 So far we have records for Surrey, Beds, Bucks, Kent, Herts, Middlesex and Guernsey. Where will they appear next? Please enjoy looking out for them and send in your sightings for #BeeFlyWatch - 📸 of the Herts bee-fly by @allanburrows.bsky.social
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#BeeFlyWatch, also known as #LongSnozzedFloofWatch 😄
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A Dark-edged Bee-fly sat on a leaf, basking in sunshine - library photo by @kitenet.bsky.social
Bee-flies are go! A 1st #BeeFlyWatch record for 2026 is in, from east Surrey on 26 Feb. Look out for more during warm & sunny spells over coming weeks, & please send in sightings, via iRecord if possible. Full details on the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social website: dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch
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There are now only about 90 shopping days until the next #BeeFlyWatch season 😄 Get yourself into the right frame of mind via this EntoLearn webinar on 25 March from @biologicalrecording.co.uk - bookings now open www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bee-flies-...
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Excellent news for this very restricted species of bee-fly #BeeFlyWatch
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Normally Dark-edged Bee-flies continue well into May and there are records for June and even July, but they seem to have peaked early this year #BeeFlyWatch
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Excited to find this dark-edged bee-fly over the sunny bank holiday weekend. Will add to iRecord.
#BeeflyWatch
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First Bee-fly spot of the year. This one is feeding on some lovely crab apple blossom. #beeFlyWatch #invertebrates #Yorkshire #natureVideos #blossom
@uk-soldierflies.bsky.social
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Photo of a dark-edged beefly on a blade of bright green grass bathed in sunlight. The beefly is chubby and very fuzzy in a caramel brown fuzz, long proboscis pointing upward, elegant long wings half black half white sparkling under the light.
On the fourth day of #InverteFest the Universe gave to me this chubby dark-edged bee-fly on my way from the garden centre
#BeeflyWatch
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4/4 🙏 Thanks to everyone who has sent in a record for #BeeFlyWatch, please keep them coming 👏👏👏 For more info see dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watc... When will the first record of Western Bee-fly come in? The earliest its ever been seen was 26 April (in 2020), so maybe not long to wait!
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Distribution maps showing the records in 2025 for Dark-edged and Dotted Bee-flies.
2/4 #BeeFlyWatch records in 2025 have come in from across the expected range. The first dates this year were early - not exceptionally so in England, but Scotland had its earliest ever Dark-edged Bee-fly record on 14 March.
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Two charts showing the number of records per week for the years 2021 to 2025. Dark-edged Bee-fly has had a strong peak in records in late March and early April. Dotted Bee-fly got off to a strong start in late March.
Good news for bee-flies! They have been reported much more frequently this year, and in mid-April we have already had more 2025 records than we did for the whole of 2024, for both Dark-edged and Dotted Bee-flies. This is likely to be due to the much sunnier weather this year. #BeeFlyWatch 1/4
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A Dark-edged bee-fly resting on my outstretched finger, in this view you can see that its right wing is not fully formed.
After the initial Disney princess feeling, I spotted the reason why this little one wasn’t flying away… it couldn’t, as one of its wings hadn’t properly formed 🥺
Still a privilege to have such a close-up look at one of these beautiful fluffy flies.
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#BeeFlyWatch
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