Hoverfly feeding on a cistus flower - its proboscis can be clearly seen.

There are so many insects around the garden right now - they have really captured my attention... and I am enjoying the new camera !!

** Thanks to GaryP for helping me with the ID **

Hoverfly on cat's ear flower

Hoverfly on the car. Think this one wanted it's photograph taken. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on Senecio flower. Sphaerophoria sp.

Sigma 105mm F2.8 DG DN MACRO | A 020 + TC-1411

Hoverflies are common in my garden. Usually they have black and brown eyes, but I have seen this one with blue eyes twice in two days on the same plant early evening.

A little Hoverfly....

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus having a clean. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on crocus

A brief departure from butterflies.

Hoverflies masquerade as wasps to scare off potential predators. They are great friends to gardeners. The adults feed on pollen and nectar and are useful pollinators. Their larvae feed on aphids, those tiny sap sucking insects that do so much damage to roses.

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Hoverfly

Shot at 2:1 and cropped

Hoverfly - Highdown gardens. Natural light. Syrphus torvus

Hoverfly on crocus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly feeding on Korean mint

Hoverflies on miniature pine. Epistrophe eligans. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on camellia leaf

...in the walled gardens at Mottisfont, Hampshire UK

Strangways, Vic.

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus on an apple. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus on weed flower

Hoverfly Myathropa florea on ox-eye daisy

front yard capture in chesterfield

Strangways, Vic

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blue clematis ~ general sikorsky

hoverfly ~ syrphidae

Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri on hebe

Happy Wing Wednesday! ;0)

Large hoverfly volucella zonaria back on the ox-eye daisies

Hoverfly Sphaerophoria sp. on the move. Natural light

more macro moments

Hoverfly on my finger. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverflies taken in the garden last summer. Lincolnshire, UK.

Thank you "She Shores"

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens. Natural light

Hoverfly- Syrphus sp.

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum . First I've seen this year. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/48096114046/ for a 3D version

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria female - full flash

I think that this may be a Syrphus hoverfly, but there's a good chance I'm wrong! Taken in Durham.

Hoverfly Myathropa florea. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Unlike the red squirrel, this hoverfly didn't mind me taking a photo. It sat there for 5 minutes whilst I got the right settings on my camera and the right angle. A bee came and disturbed it once or twice but it landed again in the same place again each time. I just wish the hoverflies in my garden were so obliging!