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Orange-spined Drone Fly

Eristalis nemorum

5,815Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
112Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar5
Apr174
May561
Jun886
Jul1,252
Aug1,952
Sep829
Oct39
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England451
2Cumbria England240
3Cheshire East England239
4Dorset England180
5Worcestershire England167
6Devon England165
7Oxfordshire England145
8Gwynedd Wales139
9North Yorkshire England100
10Northamptonshire England90
11Kent England86
12Cornwall England75
13Suffolk England71
14Cambridgeshire England70
15Somerset England69
4,547 England450 Scotland627 Wales117 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 112 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,815
Peak month
August
Counties with records
112
Scientific name
Eristalis nemorum
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,125
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Eristalis
Name with authority
Eristalis nemorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 6098383