The Dark-edged Bee Fly is a spring insect (and spring has finally arrived!). Our map for the whole country only shows records submitted on this website, so mostly Essex records. The excellent book British soldierflies and their allies by Alan Stubbs & Martin Drake states that the Dark-edged Bee Fly is found in much of southern England, the Midlands and the Welsh lowlands, also extending into southern Scotland and further north along the west coast. It is a nice insect! (unless you are a solitary bee larva on which the bee fly larva develops).
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This forum has now been more or less replaced by the Club's Facebook page at 
The weblog below is for naturalists to use to report interesting sightings, ask questions, report on field meetings and generally post pictures and any information or questions generally relevant in some way to the wildlife and geology of Essex. You will need to register and be logged-on to post to the forum, and you need to upload pictures first, for use in posts. Find out more
The weblog below is for naturalists to use to report interesting sightings, ask questions, report on field meetings and generally post pictures and any information or questions generally relevant in some way to the wildlife and geology of Essex. You will need to register and be logged-on to post to the forum, and you need to upload pictures first, for use in posts. Find out more