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Just thought I'd upload a non Asha picture of a Dandelion with a Hoverfly on it taken in my front garden late last year. Hope it makes you long for Spring to come around again to see these beautiful but not before we have had some snow here...I'm still waiting to get my snow pictures...lol
I think these are the flowers of some type of Euphorbia but I could be wrong and no, I dont know the hoverflies I.D. One day I might get good at this lol
Took at 90mm ISO 500 F/16 1/200th all natural light : )
Marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) perched on a dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) flower.
Bzyg prążkowany (Episyrphus balteatus) siedzący na kwiecie mniszka lekarskiego (Taraxacum officinale).
Marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) sipping nectar from garden cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) flower.
Bzyg prążkowany (Episyrphus balteatus) spijający nektar z kwiatu kosmosu pierzastego (Cosmos bipinnatus).
Thank you Gary for confirmation of this Hoverfly. Gary Faulkner: www.flickr.com/photos/gary-faulkner/ Identified this as a Myathropa florea (Batman Hoverfly) and I agree👍
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Lincolnshire UK. - taken in the garden feeding on a thalictrum flower on a very poor weather day with wind and rain.
Hoverflies
The hoverflies, also known as standing flies or whirling flies, are a family of the two-winged insect order. Within this they are assigned to the flies. Around 6000 species are described worldwide,
The flying artists among the insects are the elegant hoverflies. With up to 300 wing beats per second, they can stand in the air like a hummingbird. They maneuver at lightning speed, are as fast in forward as in reverse.
Now in midsummer, the meadows have been mown for a long time, and the roadsides are also short military. There is little to get there for flower visitors. All the more traffic now prevails on the herb borders of the hedges and on fallow land. Knapweed and mallow flowers, St. John's wort, tansy and wild carrots. Beetles frolic here, butterflies flutter and bumblebees land.
A hoverfly busy inside a white flower. Perhaps she wanted some privacy. However, my camera was fast.
Al about hoverflies here:
www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.mic...
I didn't see too many hoverflies or bees this summer but they never fail to show up when the sedums bloom. I think it may have been because of all the smoke we were getting from the Canadian wildfires. Best viewed large.
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I was photographing this flower in my garden when a small hoverfly appeared. The small hoverfly was then chased away by this slightly larger hoverfly!
I didn't notice until I viewed the image afterwards that there is also a tiny larva / maggot on the flower!
A hoverfly (Eristalis arbustorum maybe? ID help always appreciated!) visiting the gorgeous dahlias in the Point Defiance Dahlia Trial Garden in Tacoma, Washington.
Lithia Park, Ashland, OR
First time taking picture of this tiny creature. It was quite a battle!.
奧勒崗州的動物對人真是非常友善，連小蟲也不例外！盡管如此，還是花了一番功夫才拍到一張勉強能看的。
Not sure what this one is, can't find it yet in my book. Feeding on some of the wildflowers growing in my lawn and borders.
Myathropa florea is a very common European and North African species of hoverfly. Adults may be seen on flowers from May to September. It is of a similar size to the common drone fly, but Myathropa are generally more yellow, with two light bands to the thorax, interrupted with a black central smudge.
Sturdy, large hoverfly with a dark drawing on the thorax back that with a bit of imagination looks like a skull: two spots at the front as eyes, followed by a large, grinning spot as a mouth. Abdomen with yellow spots. The species sits on flowers and at forest edges and often fanatically chases away other (hoverflies).
The Achillea Terracotta is a beloved plant in our gardens. This is because the plant, also called 'Yarrow', blooms long-lasting and exuberantly during the summer months. The umbel-shaped flowers have a special terracotta color that turns yellow as the season progresses.
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