Mid May 2024
Until this year I had only seen three snakeflies, two that I had confirmed as Xanthostigma xanthostigma and one unidentified one. This spring I noticed two together and knowing which bits to look at caught one to photograph. I was delighted to find that it was a different species to my previous sightings (there are four UK snakefly species). This one was Phaeostigma notata, and there seemed to have been a nationwide emergence as there were quite a few other posts about them on social media a few days either side of my find.
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