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I thought I might have missed these little hoverflies and had stopped looking when I came across a single hoverfly that had spent the night on the spent flowerhead of Fleabane. As with everything else it was covered in dew which made the eye detail a little more interesting.
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I absolutely adore hoverflies and have been photographing them for several years. It's rather late I think for me to still be seeing these but while some of the garden plants are still blooming it seems some of the smaller hoverflies are seeking out the pollen.
Hoverfly on Coneflower
Backyard macro
A "much" larger than life view of this beautiful and interesting pollinating species.
First time I have ever seen this spectacular hoverfly. It was one of half a dozen or so species plus the same number of bee species visiting the flowers of the garden smoke tree. Some species, especially Andrena haemorrhoa, were present in quite large (20+ on the tree at one time) numbers.
Initially misidentified as Dasysyrphus albostriatus but corrected after seeing a shot of Chrysotoxum festivum by aecm1.
I was taking photos of a weigela bush when I spotted this hoverfly, so I turned my attention to it. I suppose this is my first outdoor insect photo of 2025!
Super tiny hoverfly, not much bigger than a mosquito, on the leaf of some pink flowers. The only bumble bee there wouldn't ever stop for a photo, just flew quickly while only brushing the blooms, so rude! :)
A hoverfly in Point Defiance Dahlia Trial Garden in Tacoma, Washington. I believe this is a Myathropa florea, also known as the Batman hoverfly, for hopefully obvious reasons!
I don't have the species to hand, but it's a common hoverfly species anyway. Just chilling on this leaf!
A stack of 113 images taken using a stackshot rail and put together with zerene stacker. magnification 4x
In Horseshoe Thicket, Walthamstow Marshes. This is a female - the males don't have a gap between their eyes.
This hoverfly was waiting to be enough warm to start its daily activity. It was enough time to let me take some pictures, one of them is this one that I share with you.
I have used my Sony Nex6 with the 90mm FE macro lens and also an external flash adjusted to 1/32.
I hope you will enjoy this photo and I will appreciate your comments.
Hoverflies or Flower Flies are common visitors to my backyard garden; this one is feeding on dandelion nectar. Often mistaken for bees or wasps, these harmless insects do not sting, and are beneficial as pollinators. Their larvae prey on aphids and other garden pests. They can be differentiated by their wing vein pattern, enormous eyes, small antennae, and other features. As there are more than 6,000 species worldwide in approximately 210 genera, I am not going to try to I.D. this one unless I break a leg and find myself enduring a long recovery time with nothing else to do.
105mm macro lens + 1.7x teleconverter, hand held, lying flat on the ground.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2014 James R. Page - all rights reserved.