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Aubrey's Copyright (Full)

insect size :8mm

close up of a hoverfly head showcasing its compound eyes. Hard to imagine how this guy manage to process so much information with a head cover with eyes.

One major advantage of this design is the luxury of spare eyes. They rarely get eye-strain watching porn.

"Episyrphus balteatus" - the Marmalade hoverfly

Hoverfly feeding on aphids at Chorley Lancs.

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus

Platycheirus peltatus

RSBP Otmoor

SP570126

02-05-2017

Can anyone help with an ID please? Seen on a riverside walk in Suffolk near Needham market today!

syn.: Heineken hoverfly , Pinocchio hoverfly

In Dutch : Snuitvlieg

Hoverfly having a clean- then front legs

Hoverfly on hebe. Eupeodes sp.

Strangways, Vic.

Hoverfly pollen noshing on valerian

Hoverfly.

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens feeding on Euphorbia. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on camellia leaf

Hoverfly - Episyrphus balteatus

Hoverfly on potentilla. Helophilus pendulus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly feeding on sugar/honey syrup. Eupeodes sp. ?

A hoverfly in flight in my London garden. Macro shot using a Canon EOS 6D. Lots of out of focus shots before this one! 21st July 2020

Hoverfly dusted with the pollen of camas - Packer Meadows

© Katie LaSalle-Lowery

www.bigskycountry.net

The last of the Hoverfly shots!

Possibly long hoverfly, sphaerophoria scripta

Hoverfly Sphaerophoria sp. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly hovering in the air :-)

Xanthogramma Pedissequum

Hoverfly on crocus. Eggs visible in the abdomen

Hoverfly - Syrphe - 2

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Hoverfly - Syrphe - 1

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Hoverfly on camellia flower feeding on sugar/honey syrup

Hoverfly loses it's head in potentilla flower - literally. No idea what did this. This is the back of the head. Likely to have been a wasp worker

A hoverfly feeding on a water marigold flower

Hoverfly visiting a marsh marigold in our Cheltenham garden pond.

Hoverfly Scaeva selenitica

Strangways, Vic.

Hoverfly Scaeva selenitica, a very welcome infrequent visitor to the garden.

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus by the side of my large pond.

Large hoverfly Volucella inanis on sea holly flower

Hoverfly on camellia leaf

Hoverfly portrait X2. Focus stacked using zerene.

Helophilius Pendulus or Dangling marsh-lover

Lens: Venus Optics Laowa 25mm 2.5x-5x @ 3x @ f3.4

Number of shots: 189 @ 25um stepsize using an MJKZZ Qool Rail 250

Illumination: 4 Ulanzi L1 powerleds + Ulanzi VL100, custom diffuser

Edit: Helicon focus, Photoshop CC, Lightroom C

Scene: Staged