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The same male drone fly as in the previous two photos, but this time feasting on the same wild dill as in the previous two photos
Camera Used: Canon EOS Rebel T1i
Lens Used: Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM prime lens
The same male drone fly feasting on the same wild dill as in the previous photo
Camera Used: Canon EOS Rebel T1i
Lens Used: Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM prime lens
I believe this is a Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax) in the garden this morning. It's a honeybee-like and honeybee-size Syrphid Flower Fly (family Syrphidae) in the order Diptera. They blow up their face to make the large proboscis that can fit into the deep flowers of non-native Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii). If you look closeer, you can see a normal proboscis inside a fleshy sack. (San Marcos Pass, 22 July 2012)
My, what furry eyeballs you have!
Feeding on a local Goat Willow in full bloom alongside several bees. With my first butterfly of the year also just around the corner at the time, it felt much more like March than February today.
Eristalis tenax is a European hoverfly, also known as the drone fly (or "dronefly").
This one is enjoying some nectar from Allium schoenoprasum.
Eristalis tenax is a European hoverfly, also known as the drone fly (or "dronefly"). It has been introduced into North America and is widely established.
The larva of E. tenax is a rat-tailed maggot. It lives in drainage ditches, pools around manure piles, sewage, and similar places containing water badly polluted with organic matter.[2] The larva likely feeds on the abundant bacteria living in these places.
When fully grown, the larva creeps out into drier habitats and seeks a suitable place to pupate. In doing so it sometimes enters buildings, especially barns and basements on farms. The pupa is 10–12 mm long, grey-brown, oval, and retains the long tail; it looks like a tiny mouse.
The adult fly that emerges from the pupa is harmless. It looks somewhat like a drone honey bee, and likely gains some degree of protection from this resemblance to a stinging insect. The adults are called drone flies because of this resemblance. Like other hover flies, they are common visitors to flowers, especially in late summer and autumn, and can be significant pollinators.
In its natural habitat, E. tenax is more of a curiosity than a problem, and the adults are beneficial pollinators.
Female black-shouldered drone fly on ground elder blossoms; same drone fly as in the previous photo
Camera Used: Canon EOS Rebel T6i
Lens Used: Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM prime lens
There I was taking photos of the Drone flies, when next to my head was a loud buzzing that plummeted to the ground. It turned out that a wasp had grabbed hold of a Drone fly and they proceeded to fight on the floor. Well, not so much a fight ... more of a mugging for the poor fly.
Blurry shot, but they were constantly tumbling. Check out the bitten-off wing.
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A male drone fly resting on part of my left hand
Camera Used: Canon EOS Rebel T7
Lens Used: Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM prime lens
2021 Male European Drone Fly photo after adding Reinhold Sigmoid and Lomo Vignette effects using Darktable 5.0.0 for Windows 10
The same female drone fly out feasting for nectar from the same lilacs that were close to being finished as in the previous five photos
Camera Used: Canon EOS Rebel T6i
Lens Used: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens
went for a wee walk around the cammo and surrounding areas this morning to test out my new Canon EF-S 10-22mm wide angle lens. wasnt able to test it to the max but i managed a few nice images. :-)
Some common animal life in the Reeuwijkse Hout
Top row:
Garden warbler, tuinfluiter (Sylvia borin)
Green-eyed hawkers, vroege glazenmakers (Aeshna isoceles), males
Middle row:
Grey heron, gray heron, blauwe reiger (Ardea cinerea)
Yellow shell, gestreepte goudspanner (Camptogramma bilineata)
Stripe-faced dronefly, puntbijvlieg (Eristalis nemorum), male and female
Bottom row:
Small tortoiseshell, kleine vos (Aglais urticae)
(Probably) Lesser marsh grasshopper, kustsprinkhaan (Chorthippus albomarginatus), nymph
European hare, brown hare, Europese haas, haas (Lepus europaeus)
Common Ragwort - Senecio jacobaea
www.nativeflower.co.uk/details.php?plant_url=62
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Eristalis
Eristalis is a large genus of hoverflies, family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera. Several species are known as drone flies (or droneflies) because they bear a resemblance to honeybee drones.
Drone flies and their relatives are fairly common generalist pollinators,[2] the larvae of which are aquatic, and breathe through a long, snorkel-like appendage, hence the common name rat-tailed maggots.[1][3]
Eristalis is a large genus of around 99 species,[4] and is subdivided into several subgenera and species groups (Eristalomyia, Eristalis, Eoseristalis etc.).
More information can be found on the link below:-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eristalis
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Hover fly
Hover flies, also called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae (maggots) eat a wide range of foods. In some species, the larvae are saprotrophs, eating decaying plant and animal matter in the soil or in ponds and streams. In other species, the larvae are insectivores and prey on aphids, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects.
Insects such as aphids are considered a crop pest, and therefore the aphid-eating larvae of some hover flies serve as an economically (as well as ecologically) important predator and even potential agents for use in biological control, while the adults may be pollinators.
About 6,000 species in 200 genera have been described. Hover flies are common throughout the world and can be found on all continents except Antarctica. Hover flies are harmless to most mammals, though many species are mimics of stinging wasps and bees, a mimicry which may serve to ward off predators.
More information can be found on the link below:-
Dronefly, Flowerfly, Hoverfly
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Eristalis tenax
This fly does such a good job of mimicing a Honey Bee that it fooled me this morning. Carole and I were working our way back to the house when I got a couple quick shots of this fly on the Chickory. As Carole was unlocking the door, I said, "I think I got a pretty good shot of a Honey Bee on the Chickory." As soon as I downloaded the shots, I knew I had lied to her.
The bright spot was that the abdominal pattern exactly matches the images of Eristalis tenax on the web. Others I have been seeing are similar but different. I am not sure how much is variation within the species.
Eristalis tenax is a European hoverfly, also known as the drone fly or dronefly. HD Video taken in Northern Illinois. Clara Curtis, also known as Country Girl Flower.
Pale areas on the thorax distinguish this excellent wasp mimic from the Dronefly.
The first 2 long veins alos reach the wing margin, May - October, mainly in wooded areas.
The larvae live in rotten wood and in water-filled holes in trees,....
( I.D. Collings, complete guide to BRITISH INSECTS ),...
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