Hoverfly nectaring on a miniature scabious growing in one of my planters.

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens. First of the year. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly larva. Focus stacked using zerene. Probably Epistrophe eligans

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Eristalis species of Drone fly I think. Quite like our common Eristalis tenax.

Hoverfly on camellia leaf feeding on sugar/honey syrup. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Syrphus sp.

Hoverflies. Natural light.

Hoverfly taken in the garden

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/.

Pollinators

Hoverfly (Syrphidae) larva, possibly Meligramma triangulifera, on birch (Betula). Holme Fen National Nature Reserve, Holme, Cambridgeshire. Sunday 28th January 2018.

The ID is tentative, as this specimen has clearly been here for so long that it was covered extensively with greenery, but it seems to match the description and image in the excellent colour guide by Rotheray (downloadable from diptera.info/downloads/df_1_9_Colour_Guide_to%20Hoverfly_...).

An Eristalis species of hoverfly, probably E. pertinax - at Ariundle Oakwoods NNR

Hoverfly Dasysyrphus albostriatus. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

hoverfly

Kamera: Fujifilm Finepix HS50 EXR © 2016-03 by Richard von Lenzano richard.von.lenzano@gmail.com

Hoverfly Eumerus funeralis. Focus stacked using zerene

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

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Wickman's Field, Tile Hill, Coventry CV

Classification of this Hoverfly provided by Rakhi apu

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Diptera

Family: Syrphidae

Subfamily: Milesiinae

Tribe: Eristalini

Subtribe: Eristaliina

Genus: Eristalinus

Common name : Hoverfly

Gear : Nikon D90 | Nikkor 50mm 1.8 (reverse) | Nikon Speedlight SB-600

Exif : 1/500 | f/8 (not in exif) | 100

Place & Date : Ramna, Dhaka | 12 Jan, 2011.

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Hoverfly on crocus X2

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)

Hoverfly portrait

Hoverfly sunning at Chorley, Lancs.

Shottisham Creek, Suffolk, 20 April 2021

Zweefvlieg

Hoverfly larva on the underside of a blackberry leaf covered in aphids. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly feeding on crocus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Dasysyrphus albostriatus on lawn weed

Hoverfly on camellia leaf.

Hoverfly visitor. Scaeva pyrastri feeding on Hebe. Natural light

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RF100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM

ƒ/16.0 100.0 mm 1/250 1250

Hoverfly

I think the reflection is Richmond Castle

Hoverfly on sage leaf. Helophilus pendulus. Focus stacked using zerene

I think this is a Hoverfly, spotted at High Beeches Gardens in Sussex

hoverflies on the flower of a thistle

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus guarding the bird bath. Focus stacked using zerene

hoverfly finally settles to eat

Hoverfly Sphaerophoria sp First I've seen this year. Natural light

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Dasysyrphus albostriatus. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on ground elder Cheilosia sp.

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?

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Hoverfly feeding on my astrantia flowers.

Hoverfly on daffodil. Focus stacked using zerene

Myathropa florae hoverfly on margeurite.