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A small Honeybee hovers over a large American Lotus blossom at Fabick Nature Preserve.

Hover fly - Helophilus pendulus

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NOT photoshopped! I was so surprised when I saw this picture that I took... It looks like they're FLOATING!!

A Dagger fly feasting on an unfortunate Hover fly

Seen in the back garden

Today has been a day of hover flies in the garden of various shapes and sizes

This shot was taken with my M4/3 40-150mm lens and raynox mcr 205

Hover - a bumblebee mimic

Hover Fly

back yard

Northfield, Minnesota

Having a rest on a leaf, big eyes and mouth part

The Mike O'Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, the key component to the Hoover Dam Bypass project, was the first concrete-steel composite arch bridge built in the United States, and it incorporates the longest concrete arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere. Opened on October 19, 2010, this four-lane highway bridge provides a crossing of the Colorado River for U.S. Route 93, linking Nevada with Arizona about 1,600 feet (about 500 meters) downstream from the Hoover Dam. This bridge is located about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. At 840 feet (260 meters) above the Colorado River, this bridge is the second-highest one in the United States, following the Royal Gorge Bridge. Built as part of the Hoover Dam Bypass Project, which was successfully completed within budget at a cost of $240 million, the bridge portion cost $114 million (2010 prices).

A hover fly on a honey suckle

I'm constantly amazed at the autofocus on the Canon 650d.

Very busy on the high hedge parsley in How Tun Woods this morning.

Hover-fly on Meadow Buttercup.

Kestrel hovering over the slope down to Invergowrie Bay. Photographed at Riverside Nature Park, Dundee.

Flies in the family Syrphidae are commonly known as hoverflies, flower flies, or syrphid flies.

 

As their common names suggest, 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.

 

Aphids alone cause tens of millions of dollars of damage to crops worldwide every year; because of this, aphid-feeding hoverflies are being recognized as important natural enemies of pests, and potential agents for use in biological control. Some adult syrphid flies are important pollinators.

 

About 6,000 species in 200 genera have been described. Hoverflies are common throughout the world and can be found on every continent except Antarctica.[1] Hoverflies are harmless to most other animals despite their mimicry of the black and yellow stripes of wasps, which serves to ward off predators.

 

From wikipedia

Same seagul, hovering and waiting for his food.

Still not brilliant but getting better ;-)

A few more shots from my recent visit to Cornwall.

The big dot is a small-ish bird of prey that I was watching and decided to capture the view. Lens wasn't quite wide enough to get the whole horizon in, so I went for the diagonal.

An old man was tossing donut bits to the gulls at Stow Lake and they were hovering in front of him long enough to catch one.

River Itchen, West End, Southampton, Hampshire. 2016/07/14

I got this guy the other day, I wasn't going to post it, cause not the best of pictures, but I keep looking at it and I'm so amazed at how they can just hover like that. Had to post it.( view larger)

Cant you just imagine the little guys butt dancing back and forth in jubilation that it is spring time!!!

Hover fly on a false dandelion

This little fellow was jumping around on the flowers to select the best spot...I guess...

Hover plane | Model airplane show at Cruelly, France, on D-Day 70th anniversary festivities. | June 7, 2014 | Canon EOS 5D Mark III | ¹⁄₁₂₅₀ sec at f/3.5 125

a hover fly in my garden - this photo took me an hour of scrambling through brambles chasing flies.. maybe i shouldnt admit to that

More hover shots, didnt see much today, but i do like these little hovers

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