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Epistrophe eligans (female)

Taken in Buckinghamshire 03-05-20

@Home with a background of green leaves and pink Spirea Flowers

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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Hoverfly.

I removed most of the pollen from the eye under the binocular stereo microscope before taking the picture. This task took about an hour!. The rest I leave, there are hundreds of such pollen. Remarkable are also the small white hairs on the eye facets.

I don't know why exactly, but I like shooting these little guys.

The wonderfully named Marmalade Hoverfly feeding in a meadow between the showers

Good to see some Hoverflies about in mid November. Found on a patch of wild flowers around the paddyfields Valencia

Hoverfly

Hoverfly - Ocyptamus sp.

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

Small hoverfly feeding on a Felicia flower. This flower is less than 2cm across. Worth viewing larger.

I'm rubbish at titles, so I would welcome alternatives!!

Have a great week everyone!

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.

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.

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I seek the help of an expert in identifying insects... coz I am not sure if this is a hoverfly.

Thanks for the view ,faves and comments

Have a nice day!!

Common banded hoverfly on Potentilla fruticosa.

Thank you all for comments & faves :)

A beautiful little hoverfly, which stopped on a window.

Restricted to the garden during lockdown.

on Actinotus helianthi (Flannel Flower)

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Hoverfly loves her candy stick :)

I think this one really is a hoverfly, but let me know if I'm wrong again! As I sit listening to the rain pounding on the roof of my study, I realise I probably won't be doing any garden photography today, and I found this one that I'd discarded from a few days ago. I discarded it because there was a tiny reflection off the hoverly's body of the ring light I had attached to the camera. Today's heavy rain gave me an incentive to zoom in and edit it out ;-)

Hoverfly...I googled...looks like a 'Helophilus pendulus.!!

A hoverfly at Hillier Gradens, not sure which species.

It was a changeable day weatherwise yesterday but during one of the sunny breaks I spotted this hoverfly.

Day 24 submission for April 2017 - a month in 30 pictures

One more shot of an autumn Hoverfly. Usually don't see these this late in the year. We still have some flowers left in the garden and I'm still picking tomatoes! Near 80 tomorrow.

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This hoverfly is a great bumblebee mimic. I found this one feeding on Green Alkanet along the roadside in Hunmanby, North Yorkshire.

Hoverfly on a sun chair. Focus stacked using zerene

Powerstock Common Dorset

hand-held

A hoverfly of Syrphus rubseii or Syprhus vitripennis hovering in a wooded area of Hounslow Heath. At 500mm focal length at f/7.1, and a distance to subject of only 1.3 metres, the depth of field was only one milimetre in extent. The hoverfly itself is ten times longer than this, meaning only the compound eyes are in sharp focus, and the individual ommatidia (the individual units that make up the eye) can be seen.

Hoverfly-Taiwan

Another shot of the Hoverfly from an earlier visit to Rodney Stoke NNR.

Best viewed very large.

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A heavy crop on the first Hoverfly I've seen to photo this year.

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Feeding on a field scabious flower

Hoverfly, possibly Mallota cimbiciformis.

These hoverflies are regular visitors to my garden throughout Spring, Summer and Autumn.

Hoverfly caught by an Orange Assassin Bug

Gminatus australis

in Zieria smithii in our front garden