Hoverfly with a human face ? -Eine Schwebefiege mit Gesicht ?

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Hoverfly feeding on sugar/honey drop. Syrphus sp.

Hoverfly, Mae Hia, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Hoverfly larva with the food lining up (they eat aphids).

Focus stacked using zerene

This little hoverfly was feeding on a salvia flower, with ants in the background.

Taken hand held with a Samsung 100mm f/2.8 Macro Schneider D-XENON Lense on a Pentax K-1 Mark II

Found at the beach in Garths Voe, Graven, Shetland.

Hoverfly - Helophilus pendulus - Highdown gdns Worthing. Natural light

Hoverfly Myathropa florea. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Another sleepy hoverfly I found just past dawn. HFDF everyone. Glad I could get in on the first fly day Friday of the new year.

This is a new species of hoverfly for our garden - the only shot I managed to get of it. So far I've photographed at least 10 different hoverfly species here.

It hasn't been identified yet on Bowerbird, but I think it could be a White-banded Slender Hover Fly - Betasyrphus serarius: www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_hoverflies/StoutSlenderH...

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus. Focus stacked using zerene

October Archives, Hoverfly macro.

Hoverfly feeding on crocus

Hoverfly on toadflax flower at Chorley, Lancs.

Another garden Insect, this time a Hoverfly

Hoverfly Volucella inanis on sea holly. Natural light.

Ipswich, Suffolk, 10 May 2018

hoverfly Syrphidae; Latreille seen at warnham nature reserve near horsham west Sussex

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Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum in flight. Taken in natural light. This male was doing territorial hovering in exactly the same place as shots i have taken of the same species for the last 3 years. You can see the wing movement is not stopped at 1/1000th sec shutter speed.

Hoverfly. Margined Calligrapher (Toxomerus marginatus). Shot in Portsmouth, VA on 23MAY18. GX8 w/P100-300mm + Raynox DCR-150 at 300mm, f/16, 1/250 sec, flash.

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus feeding on some sugar/honey syrup

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus feeding on sugar.honey syrup. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus feeding on lace hydrangea sequence

Hoverfly on passion flower. Focus stacked using zerene

At first, I mistaken this fellow as a bee. Then realised that there is no sting at it's end and the funny black hump on the back. Only get to find out that it is Hoverfly after searching it's identity from Internet.

Took this handheld with my 5D mounted with 100mm macro and 580EXii mounted with my homemade diffuser. Shot in RAW and did minor adjustment on sharpness and brightness to get the above.

**Best view at large

Hoverflies

Hoverfly resting in canopy at Chorley, Lancs.

Sony Alpha 65

Sigma 105 mm F2,8 EX Makro DG OS

Hoverfly in flight near euphorbia flowers. Missed good head focus

Hoverfly having a rest between territorial flights over a camellia bush. Natural light. Epistrophe eligans

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus by the side of my small pond. Focus stacked using zerene

An obliging hoverfly, hovering in front of me in my overgrown lawn (now meadow!).

Handheld, natural light. I think it's a bit hazy at the rear of the abdomen because some grass got in the way.

Hoverfly Syrphus torvus feeding on a drop of syrup on a camellia leaf. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly larva on honeysuckle leaf. Focus stacked using zerene. Probably Epistrophe eligans

Hoverfly Syrphus torvus on camelia leaf feeding on sugar/honey syrup. Focus stacked using zerene

I think either Platycheirus scutatus or Melanostoma scalare ("Chequered Hoverfly")

Rained most of yesterday on and off (we needed it) but found a few hoverflies about during a brief dry spell. These two hovers were clinging to a sweet pea flower and didn't seem to want to move. So did a series of shots where I was holding the base of the flower and twisting it to get the angles and background i wanted. Eventually dawned on me that these hovers did not want to move, so I gently cut off the flower and placed it on another leaf on a sun chair for easier shooting. Focus stacked using zerene stacker