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Family Syrphidae

188 species

Marmalade hoverfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 46,804

Tapered Drone Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 35,005

Dangling Swamp-lover

Group: True flies
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 34,301

Drone Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 28,014

Batman Hoverfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 21,723

Grey-spotted Sedgesitter

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 15,504

Hover Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 15,338

Ladder-backed Hover Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 14,120

Common Flower Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 11,730

Volucella pellucens

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 11,473

Common Globetail

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 10,244

Brown-toed Forest Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 9,719

Rhingia campestris

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 9,678

Hover Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 9,660

Migrant Hover Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 9,218

Greater Bulb-fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 8,814

Hornet Hoverfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 8,755

Hover Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 8,563

Bog Hoverfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 8,261

Bumble Bee Hover Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 7,101

Bumblebee Blacklet

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 6,599

Spring Epistrophe

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 6,574

Black-tailed Aphideater

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 6,458

Eurasian Smoothwing

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 5,929

Spotted Meliscaeva

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 5,839

Orange-spined Drone Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 5,815

Furry Dronefly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 5,653

Lesser Hornet Hoverfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 5,083

Two-banded wasp hoverfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 4,512

Blotch-winged Hoverfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 4,060

Philhelius pedissequum

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,261

Dark-winged Chrysogaster

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 3,254

Common Dainty

Group: True flies
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 2,957

Hover fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 2,928

Black-horned Smoothtail

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 2,911

Stripe-backed Brusheye

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,892

American Thintail

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,783

Common Sedgesitter

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 2,619

Syrphus vitripennis

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,549

Hairy-eyed Flower Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 2,543

Cheilosia morio

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,521

Broad-banded Aphideater

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,474

Hornhand Sedgesitter

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,435

Smudge-veined Fen Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,378

Pale-saddled Leucozona

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,361

Common Copperback

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 2,218

Small Spotty-eyed Drone Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 2,218

Golden-tailed Leafwalker

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 2,149