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Hoverflies are a vital and colourful part of a healthy garden. They are brilliant pollinators that are often overlooked. The larvae of many species feed on aphids while others are efficient nutrient recyclers, making a valuable contribution to a natural balance in gardens.
A couple of hoverflies, who were at it for well over an hour - so hats off to Mr Hoverfly there. They were so busy, they didn't seem to be concerned with me setting up my mini tripod and sticking a camera up their noses. This is a focus stack of lots of shots taken in natural light.
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Olympus OMD-EM1 mk2
60mm
An early morning Hoverfly, in hindsight I should have tried to add a background, but this shot displays the dramatic effect of flash fall off, this is where the light of the flash does not hit anything in the time of the exposure, to remedy this I could have used a longer exposure or used a false backdrop, other solutions increase the size of the aperture and also up the ISO.
Not sure of species here, thought it might be Syrphus sp, but not 100% :)
Found this mating pair of Hoverflies early this morning at Bishop's Hill in Warwickshire. I believe they are Syrphus vitripennis.
When out last week I noticed these Hoverflies around the dandelions on the road verge, I only had my faithful Sigma 17-70 with me, so bent over and popped a few shots off.
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Eupeodes corollae visiting one of the Honeybee Violas in one of my garden pots! Happy Flyday! Hope it's a good one for you all. ;0)
Eupeodes luniger is a moderate sized (average of 8mm length) Syrphid hoverfly with characteristic wasp-like yellow markings on the abdomen. In the case of E. Luniger these are obviously comma shaped and usually do not meet at the centre line of the abdomen, although in this variable species some individuals show markings that do meet and form spectacle shaped yellow patches. These markings do not reach the lateral edges.
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Another image from yesterdays visit to Rodney Stoke NNR. Whilst I did find a few Hoverflies on various perches, they were nearly all Melanostoma genus and had photographed them on a previous trip. Whilst continuing the search for other invertebrates for over an hour, I did eventually find a small number of Sphaerophoria scripta in a small patch near a hedge line.
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I found this hoverfly larva `rambling' on our compost bin.
A single shot, taken with my MP-E 65mm lens, at about 1.5x magnification, in natural light.
I'm not sure if I got the colour quite right in post-processing; the larva seemed a bit more green to my eye! (The difference in colour might also be because of the lighting, because in this shot, the larva was being strongly backlit at the front end, while the back end was in shadow.)
I'm also not sure which hoverfly species this larva belongs to; I do have a book on IDing the larvae, but I gave up! :D... but I'll hazard a very rough guess at: Epistrophe eligans.
For info: the head is to the left; the red `bump' at the rear is a breathing tube.
I haven't seen many of this particular hoverfly (Baccha elongata, I think) around here. I was happy to see this one hovering around the brand new flower in the morning light, and happier still to see it still there after I ran in to get the camera. During the several minutes it was there I took dozens of shots, and was glad to get a few decent ones...
With 25 mm tube
The Hoverfly is Helophilius pendulus, also known as 'The Footballer' (because of its stripy thorax) and 'The Sunfly' because of its preference for sunny days, its scientific name strangely means 'Dangling Marsh Lover', but ......... What the heck is that little white creature the fly is looking at?????
I saw the Hoverfly on a leaf near Carr Mill Dam and quickly took the picture before it flew off. It was only when I checked the picture, when I got home, that I saw the tiny creature it was looking at, (at least I think it's a tiny creature, it certainly looks like one) but I haven't a clue what it might be. Not the best sharpness but not bad at all considering it was a fast shot taken with the Oly 75-300ii focussed on the fly. I really hope somebody can tell me what the white creature is, it is very tiny, I'm guessing only about 1cm long comparing it to the fly.
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