Normally I don't like close-ups, but this fly is really tiny (9mm for adults) --- a closeer look is warranted.

The bright yellow little flower that the hoverfly is feeding on is also known as Common Tansy, Bitter Buttons, Cow Bitter, Mugwort or Golden Buttons.

This image is included in a gallery "Degli Insetti" curated by Grisu.

Shottisham, Suffolk, 11 February 2022

Shot at 2:1 and cropped

Strangways, Vic

Hoverfly resting and warming up, thanks to Ken for putting up his photo and enabling me to ID this one.

116 pictures in 2016 - 73 Invertebrates

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum. First of the year. Focus stacked using zerene

I think that this may be a Syrphus hoverfly, but there's a good chance I'm wrong! Taken in Durham.

The Syrphids (hoverfly) look likes a wasp or a bee but it's an insect from the Syrphidae family.

Taken in september with a very affordable macro lens:

Pergear 65mm F2.8 mark 2, macro 2x for Z mount.

Hoverfly Myathropa florea on ox-eye daisy. Natural light

Summer is here and the Hoverfly's are out.

Hoverfly on Autumn flowering bottlebrush. Natural light

Millennium Wood

Hoverfly in Alexandra Park, Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland

Hoverfly on white flower

Hoverfly on cat's ear flower

Hoverfly on sneezeweed flower at Chorley, Lancs.

Hoverfly on Senecio flower. Sphaerophoria sp.

A little Hoverfly....

Hoverfly on crocus

Hoverfly on crocus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus on the edge of a bird bath. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene. Oshiro 60mm

Hoverflies taken in the garden last summer. Lincolnshire, UK.

Today's back garden safari... hoverflies! Very tricky to photograph - they're tiny, they don't stay still for long, don't come close and it's hard to get a focus on them. Going to stick with birds from now on ...

Hoverfly wings open. Natural light

Hoverflies on miniature pine. Epistrophe eligans. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly sp macro

Hoverfly on camellia leaf

Caméra Sony SLT-A55V + Sony 70-300 G SSM, main levée AF.

Exposition 1/2500 sec

Ouverture f/8.0

Longueur focale 300 mm

Vitesse ISO 800

Détection du degré d'exposition 0 EV

Hoverfly Myathropa florea on ox-eye daisy

Melangyna viridiceps

This is one of two species of hoverfly that is common in Eastern Australia. It can be distinguished from the other species ( Simosyrphus grandicornis) by the black thorax. (I should say that the distinguishing black thorax is not so obvious in this photograph because of reflections in that area, but is more apparent on some of the other shots that I took.)

The adults feed on pollen and nectar whilst the larvae predate on aphids.

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Thank you "She Shores"

Hoverfly.

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria female - full flash

Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri on hebe

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Hoverfly Sphaerophoria sp. on the move. Natural light