All-black Snout - Nemotelus nigrinus
This is a mainly black soldierfly with a long black beak like snout.
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Flower meadows and flower rich grassland.
Summer
Visits flowering plants such as Yarrow and Ox-eye Daisy.
Fairly frequent and widespread in southern Britain
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
07 June 2015
male
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
21 May 2010
female
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
07 June 2015
male
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Species profile
- Common names
- All-black Snout
- Species group:
- Flies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Diptera
- Family:
- Stratiomyidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 21/05/2010 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 07/05/2017 (Gould, David)
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David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
07 May 2017
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
07 May 2017
