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This bumblebee-mimic hoverfly is characterised by its long face and a lack of long hairy tufts on the base of the abdomen. Although widespread across England and Wales it's one I rarely see.
This one was feeding on hogweed alongside a footpath in Goathland in the North Yorkshire Moors.
Another taken last June 2016 in my local woodland.
I'm getting quite excited now as I have already seen a couple of eristalis hoverflies and some bees plus a peacock butterfly so I will soon be able to swell the hard drive with more insect shots I hope 😃
This particular hoverfly is quite robust and unmistakeable. They had a good year last year I thought and I saw plenty of these and many other species too so I am hoping 2017 is as exciting insect wise.
I don't have the species to hand, but it's a common hoverfly species anyway. Just chilling on this leaf!
Hoverfly on Coneflower
Backyard macro
A "much" larger than life view of this beautiful and interesting pollinating species.
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.
A stack of 113 images taken using a stackshot rail and put together with zerene stacker. magnification 4x
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 rather golden one, I thought, but apparently there's a golden hover fly species and it doesn't look like one of them! Any help with ID would be much appreciated!
Thank you Vin for the ID! Much appreciated! :-))
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.
In Horseshoe Thicket, Walthamstow Marshes. This is a female - the males don't have a gap between their eyes.
Back over to Rodney Stoke Woods on a very cold morning with frost on the ground.
This prolonged cold spell has meant that I was not expecting to find too much but flies of different species were around in reasonable numbers, including a couple of these Hoverflies, which I think I've got the id for but may need to amend once confirmed.
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In the garden, a tiny hoverfly on the first sunflower bloom of the season.
Panasonic G9, Laowa 50mm F/2.8 MFT 2X macro and Godox TT350o flash. Around 1:1 as I recall.
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