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I was taking shots of my Rose, Just Joey, and this little hoverfly sat down on the leaf.. I got one shot and then moved to get closer and he was GONE... Nuts !!!!!!!
The size of hoverflies varies, depending on the species. Some, like members of the genus Baccha, are small, elongate and slender, while others, like members of Criorhina are large, hairy, and yellow and black. As members of Diptera, all hoverflies have a single functional pair of wings (the hindwings are reduced to balancing organs). They are brightly colored, with spots, stripes, and bands of yellow or brown covering their bodies. Due to this coloring, they are often mistaken for wasps or bees; they exhibit Batesian mimicry. Despite this, hoverflies are harmless.
With a few exceptions ), hoverflies are distinguished from other flies by a spurious vein, located parallel to the fourth longitudinal wing vein. Adults feed mainly on nectar and pollen. They also hover around flowers, lending to their common name.
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Picture of the Day in The Glasgow Herald tomorrow (Tuesday).
A picture of a Scottish summer - on a good day! Last Saturday on Portencross Road as tiny hoverflies flitted around a thistle.
Photo©George Crawford.
Nice brown-orange hoverfly cleaning itself up after being caught in rain. The thing was very bedraggled looking, but after doing its thing flew away quite happily a few minutes later. What's quite pleasing is this has no cropping, the hoverfly was the right size and I could zoom in to get a reasonable shot. Yay! Shot in a garden resting on Rhododendron, garden edges onto mixed woodlands.
On another note, this does slightly show the limitation of using a ringflash with that quite aggressive highlight on its face. I have another ringflash that I never use, a 40 year old pk ur130z designed for hassleblads and medium format cameras. It's so old that it's not possible to adjust the output hence I never use it, but having tested it I note it outputs more light than I need (rather than less). So I was thinking of making a diffuser for it, a semi hemisphere, to make it into a diffused light source. Anyone ever tried this with a ringflash?
December 2013: just to add a quick plug for the extreme macro website I've done which explains some of the eq used in this pic, the techniques etc - the site is at extreme-macro.co.uk/.
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Kamera: Fujifilm Finepix HS50 EXR © 2016-03 by Richard von Lenzano richard.von.lenzano@gmail.com
This lovely little hoverfly was totally unaware, what lay waiting under the petals of this beautiful rose! I took a few shots of it landing and feeding crawling around very close to the hidden beastie. Escaped for this day! Have a great day HBBBT ;0)
Macro capture of a hoverfly feeding on a flower, revealing fine details, soft light, and natural colors of the hidden insect world.
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus).
This was captured a year ago, but I was reluctant to post it because I missed the focus by a fraction of a millimeter (I wish it was more focused on the front of the head). But I came across it during this weekend while browsing through my archive (I was sick and couldn't get out), and when I post-processed it, it didn't look that bad after all, so I decided to post it anyway. What do you think?