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Eurasian Smoothwing

Scaeva pyrastri

5,929Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
121Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar3
Apr9
May139
Jun1,264
Jul2,965
Aug1,074
Sep225
Oct66
Nov23
Dec5

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England165
2Cornwall England163
3Devon England162
4Cambridgeshire England160
5Sefton England157
6Worcestershire England149
7Highland Scotland139
8Kent England126
9Dorset England117
10Cumbria England99
11Isle of Anglesey Wales99
12Oxfordshire England98
13Suffolk England88
14Essex England76
15North Yorkshire England74
4,360 England771 Scotland672 Wales78 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 121 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,929
Peak month
July
Counties with records
121
Scientific name
Scaeva pyrastri
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,294
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Scaeva
Name with authority
Scaeva pyrastri (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
32

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1424995 · GBIF 1537719