Hoverfly sunning at Chorley, England.

Hoverfly in the garden tonight

Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae.

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Hoverfly feeding on verbena flowers at Chorley Lancs.

Hoverfly (I think)...

Left the 50mm at home and brought the 40mm macro lens with me today.

“The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.”

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Leftover Cuties- You Are My Sunshine

A hoverfly sighted at spurn point over the weekend. It was hard to get an in focus shot as it was windy.

I forgot to upload this photo from Sunday - my favourite of the few I took that day.

Hoverflies out in force on the Heathmyrtles this spring!

Hoverfly on crocus flower X2

A hoverfly getting ready to collect pollen from the flowers an achillea plant...

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Pleased to see this one today in Jersey as is a locally scarce species

hand-held

Hoverfly and Common Carder Bee

Hoverfly on a dandelion

Common and widespread, the larvae feed on aphids. Barnbank Lane Stafford UK 8th April 2014

As usual I was so focussed on the hoverfly I didn't notice the greenfly further up the stem!

San Francisco, CA

Hoverfly on Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata)

Can anyone ID this please?

(Syrphus torvus) HBBBT ;0)

A6500 + FE 200-600 G OSS, Trépied, AF-C.

Long Hoverfly, Sphaerophoria scripta. Ealing, London, England, UK. 17 July 2023.

Nectaring on flowers of water forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides.

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At least I think it's a hoverfly, although I haven't been able to nail the species down. Any expert opinions?

Santa Rosa, California, June 2017.

Hoverfly Scaeva selenitica

Hoverfly on begonia in the greenhouse

There are over 280 species of British hoverflies. I "think" this is Episyrphus balteatus, but please correct me if I'm wrong!

A hoverfly over a black eyed Susan in a sunny day. This is the time to post photos of insects and butterflies, soon we'll be posting everything orange, brown and yellow, at least here... Fall is coming.

a different version of my hoverfly the other one has black background this one has green bokeh.

Hoverfly on verbena flowers at Chorley Lancs.

Extreme macro of head of Hoverfly . The 3 extra small eyes can be seen on the top of the head

Hoverfly - Episyrphus balteatus

Hoverfly in my wild garden having a spot of lunch!

Hoverfly on potentilla. Hope everyone has a very HFDF and a great weekend :)

This image was taken in the early morning at East Harptree Woods in Somerset on the 20th April 2013.

Finally managed to get out with the camera, work and weather had been conspiring against me!

There were quite a few of these big Hoverflies about when the sun was up, but quite difficult to spot when looking for one that had settled the previous night, surprising little else about too!

Best viewed very large.

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Hoverfly on the compost bin lid X4. Air temp 1.5'C. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly crawling up a fern.