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 on crocus again. Focus stacked using zerene

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

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

Hoverfly on camellia leaf. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly resting in canopy at Chorley, Lancs.

Explored. May 30th, 2012. #467

A male hoverfly sat on the Red Campion flower in the garden having a good clean of itself. Light was not good and it was quite a bit cooler today than it has been lately so not many about today. I have no idea of what species this is, but because the eyes are so big and touching I believe it is a male.

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria

Hoverfly in flight near euphorbia flowers. Missed good head focus

At Westhay.

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

Seaton Wetlands East Devon

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 on Japanese anemone. Dasysyrphus albostriatus

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

Hoverfly Syrphus sp.

Hoverfly Syrphus torvus

Hoverfly Cheilosia sp.

Hoverfly on Valerian. Natural light

Not sure which hoverfly this is? (Volucella inanis)

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus

Hoverfly on Euphorbia flower

Hoverfly

Hoverfly identification can be tricky and a photograph often helps....but only if the key features are recorded.

Without an image of the legs of this hoverfly, positive identification is not possible. It's either Syrphus ribesii or S. vitripennis. (School boy error!)

Hoverfly feeding on hebe. Meliscaeva auricollis

Followed this hoverfly - Episyrphus balteatus, for a while. Uncropped

Heliophilus pendulas (I think!) - hoverfly - Malahide, Dublin, Ireland.

Ipswich, Suffolk, 13 June 2018

Derbyshire

A rather distinctive hoverfly seen here on Devil's-bit scabious.

Wykeham Forest, SE9388

Best viewed in large.

Hoverfly in flight. Natural light. Scaeva selenitica

Hoverfly Baccha elongata. These like patrolling in shade. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly macro

Hoverfly

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus clour matching a mollis azalea flower. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene