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! :)

Possibly Tapered dronefly Eristalis pertinax

Highfields Stafford UK 8th July 2022

Hoverfly by my pond

Beth Chatto Gardens, Colchester, Essex

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.

Zweefvlieg

Hoverfly, possibly Mallota cimbiciformis, on Rose leaves.

In Horseshoe Thicket, Walthamstow Marshes. This is a female - the males don't have a gap between their eyes.

Hoverfly

on Actinotus helianthi (Flannel Flower)

Hoverfly.

Hoverfly, I think

CoF134: Fauna & Blur

Canon EOS 5D Mark III

180mm

ƒ/13.0 180.0 mm 1/200 800

In my garden

Lyme Regis Dorset

Derbyshire

A rather attractive species easily identified as the abdomen is longer than the closed wings. Seen here on the wonderfully named Vipers Bugloss.

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Taken in late summer 2021, a hornet mimic hoverfly feeding on an anemone

hand-held

Platycheirus albimanus, White Footed Hoverfly, in my garden

Taken with my new toy, 7artisans 60mm F2.8 II Macro Manual Fixed Lens. === between 4 and 12 millimetres long, Hoverflies (also called flower flies or syrphid flies) are beautiful little insects. I have two privet bushes that flower this time of year. They have a lot of activity on them. I love these little Hoverflies as the will do what their namesake says, they hover for you for a second or two allowing me to get a manual lens shot on them :)

I wasn't carrying a macro lens today (it's December for goodness' sake!) so I had to shoot this unexpected hoverfly with the big tele-zoom. Luckily it focuses pretty close and the light was good. It's one of a group of similar-looking hoverflies in the Syrphidae family, either Epistrophe or Syrphus sp.

Series of three. It was a good day for hoverflies last week. Not had a chance to identify them yet.

An as yet to be identified hoverfly species, taken in Durham Botanic Gardens.

This hoverfly was first recorded in Jersey last year but already this year we have recorded 11 adults so appears to be expanding well here.

Hoverflies, also called flower flies or syrphids, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae eat a wide range of foods

Hoverfly feeding on a Helenium flower

Two large hoverfly species:

Below:

Volucella zonaria (Stadsreus, Hoornaarzweefvlieg - Hornet Mimic hoverfly)

and on top:

Volucella pellucens (Witte reus, Ivoorzweefvlieg - Pellucid Hoverfly).

A Hoverfly, erm, hovering.

First record for Jersey.

Trying out some lighting setups. Any observations appreciated. I know the pic and pose aren't great but does the lighting work thanks rich

Flower Fly

Hoverfly on Mint, not only me enjoyes the smell of the mint.

Hoverfly - Ocyptamus sp.

Common banded hoverfly on Potentilla fruticosa.

Thank you all for comments & faves :)

Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus). Hertfordshire, UK.

On a flower along the Broad Walk at Kew Gardens.

Restricted to the garden during lockdown.

A hoverfly appears to be licking pollen from a stamen. Handheld macro image.