| Another
scarce species, Leucozona glaucia is described
in Stubbs and Falk's book, British Hoverflies as "being
rather local, occurring in many wooded districts along
woodland rides and edges". This was exactly the
habitat that we found several of these beautiful
hoverflies, nectaring on the flowers of Hogweed in Warsop
Wood on 23/07/06. They clearly preferred plants which
were growing in shade. The species has not been found at
Eakring yet and searches at other Sherwood Forest sites
have so far proved fruitless. |
