Plants and animals of Pointfield

An informal survey of the plant and animal life living in or visiting the grounds of Pointfield, Kelso since 2015   

Diptera: picture-wing flies

Spectacled berry fly

Anomoia purmunda

Notes

Small (5 mm) fly with strongly patterned wings that are continuously waved slowly to signal to other flies. Thorax light grey; abdomen darker and very broad. Wing pattern is diagnostic. Seen near broom under Cotoneaster tree and attracted to moth trap light.


Months sighted in garden