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Hoverfly feeding on a gerbera flower. Focus stacked using zerene. As an extension to putting open crocus flowers in a sunny camellia bush, I tried putting a cut gerbera flower on the bush. I carefully put some spots of sugar/honey syrup on the flower. A hoverfly did find the flower but promptly ignored the offered syrup in preference for the pollen
A gravid looking hoverfly on ribwort plantain flowerhead with what I think is a hoverfly larva of some kind.
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The marmalade fly gets its name from its orange colour, and the different sized black bands across its body: 'thin cut', 'thick cut', just like marmalade!
Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/38892803075/ for a 3D version
Kamera Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Belichtung 0,005 sec (1/200)
Blende f/16.0
Brennweite 180 mm
ISO-Empfindlichkeit 1250
Hoverfly feeding on pollen on a poppy
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Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum in flight. Taken in natural light. This male was doing territorial hovering in exactly the same place as shots i have taken of the same species for the last 3 years. You can see the wing movement is not stopped at 1/1000th sec shutter speed.
This hoverfly stayed very still whilst I took this shot even though my camera kept on moving the leaf when I got close. Quite similar in colour to the photo I uploaded yesterday of a fly. Oh well :)
Caught this hoverfly in the house and did my normal trick of giving it a spot of honey to keep it busy whilst I shot away. Like the way it kept it's front legs out of the honey. I did release it outside after.
A little hoverfly visiting my daisy plant which is still flowering nicely although the sightings of the insects as we now into early Autumn are becoming less of late.
This hoverfly, again found in our garden has taken me quite a while to identify, as there are many very similar Hoverflies and the black/yellow banding varies somewhat within each species. However, I think that I have identified it correctly as Eupeodes latifasciatus.
This is a fairly small hoverfly with a wing length of 6.5 to 8.5 mm. The marks on tergites 3 and 4 are usually fused into bands in this species. There is some variation, and males differ from females. The yellow marks on tergites 3 and 4 often fail to reach the lateral margins in males, and in the females this yellow band is often pinched at the lateral margin, so that only about a quarter of it remains yellow.
This species likes open habitats, and with a preference for damp meadows and lush vegetation, but can be found in gardens. It is fairly widespread in Britain, but more frequent in the south. It is scarce in some years but quite common in others and is seen from March to October peaking in August
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