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Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber - Myopa testacea

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Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber - Myopa testacea dylan Floating Harbour and River Avon 3 Mar 2024, 2:22 p.m. 25 Apr 2023, 1:24 p.m.
Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber - Myopa testacea dylan Floating Harbour and River Avon 3 Mar 2024, 2:22 p.m. 25 Apr 2023, 1:22 p.m.
Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber - Myopa testacea dylan Floating Harbour and River Avon 3 Mar 2024, 2:22 p.m. 25 Apr 2023, 1:23 p.m.
Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber - Myopa testacea dylan Floating Harbour and River Avon 3 Mar 2024, 2:22 p.m. 25 Apr 2023, 1:23 p.m.
Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber - Myopa testacea dylan Floating Harbour and River Avon 3 Mar 2024, 2:22 p.m. 25 Apr 2023, 1:24 p.m.
Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber Plain-winged Spring Beegrabber - Myopa testacea dylan Floating Harbour and River Avon 3 Mar 2024, 2:22 p.m. 25 Apr 2023, 1:24 p.m.

Species Description

Widespread and locally frequent in the Southern half of the UK, becoming rare in the north. Habitat includes: Blossom-rich places such as gardens, parks, allotments, churchyards, Oil-seed Rape fields, roadside verges, hedgerows, woodland edge, scrub etc. Flight period: April to July (peaks with the blossoming of Blackthorn and Hawthorn).

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