Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri on bottlebrush flower

Hoverfly on cuckoo flower at Chorley, England.

Hoverfly on crocus. Focus stacked using zerene

A tiny hoverfly (I think it's a marmalade hoverfly) flitting around my garden in the sunshine this afternoon.

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Hoverfly Sphaerophoria sp. Natural light. Highdown gardens Worthing.

Hoverfly feeding on a lawn daisy

A hoverfly with pretty yellow and black markings

a male syrphid (hoverfly) (Diptera: Syrphidae) resting on a small dried flower

ID: Sphaerophoria sp

Nikon 105mm f2.8 + 27.5 mm extension tube

Hoverfly on the car. Think this one wanted it's photograph taken. Focus stacked using zerene

Some color for a change. Maybe too much color? ...naaaaah.

It's a hoverfly, flower fly and syrphid fly at the same time. Depends who you ask, but it's an insect from the family of syrphidae. More closer I don't know but please tell me if You do!

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Hoverfly with 3 antennae

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens

Hoverfly on the underside of a bush oak leaf. Natural light

Hoverfly - Highdown gardens. Natural light. Syrphus torvus

Same fly from yesterday (but the front end view today) View large to see that wonderful long tongue lapping up that pollen! ;0) HFDF Have a lovely day and weekend

Myathropa florea

30% crop

Hoverfly taken in the garden

Hoverfly cleaning its ovipositor. Not an usual sight as this particular reproductive organ is not used often except for depositing its eggs in the ground.

They are often seen hovering at flowers feeding on nectar. Their larvae feed on decaying plant materials while some species, the larvae are insectivores and prey on aphids, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects. Therefore, they are deem beneficial to horticulture.

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Having a sip on a rain drenched flower.

A stack of 145 images taken using a stackshot rail and put together with zerene stacker. magnification 1.5x

Hoverfly- Syrphus sp.. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedisequum.

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Hoverfly Myathropa florea on potentilla. Natural light

Hoverfly on sage leaf. Helophilus pendulus. Focus stacked using zerene

Portrait of a Hoverfly

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We spotted this hoverfly while wlaking along the cliff top at Seahouses! I think it is Eupeodes luniger, but I am happy to be corrected!

A male parhelophilus sp. seen in Norfolk

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Sphaerophoria sp. male on ox-eye daisy leaf

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

Hoverfly on crocus. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Having a breather on a flower bud.

Taken at Middleton Lakes

Hoverfly on crocus

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria female on a camellia leaf. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Castor Hanglands nature reserve Cambridgeshire England.

Early morning stack of 20 images

Natural light

Canon 6D

65mm MP-E, 4x mag.

1/1 | f/5.6 | ISO125

I haven't got a clue which it is!

www.naturespot.org.uk/taxonomy/term/19415

Hoverfly. Natural light. These males were doing early morning territorial flights

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

Large hoverfly Volucella inanis. First I have seen this year

Android phone photo on the rear light of my car

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This was the best shot of a hoverfly I got unfortunately the extreme close up was slightly off focus on the eyes of the hoverfly so I chose this one instead.

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