Locally known as the marmalade fly this is the most common hoverfly in the UK and none the less beautiful for that. Had a day with the extension tubes on the lens and what fun that is. So much more detail which is fine with subjects like this which don't seem to care whether you are there or not - they are too busy hoovering up pollen grains.

This image is a bit soft on the eyes so that I could focus on the mouth parts. The image below shows the compound eye elements if it can be enlarged.

They are feeding on day lilies - Hemerocallis - which produce buckets of pollen.

Common they may be but like so many things close up, very beautiful.

Against my new neighbours' also new fence!

Hoverfly on begonia in the greenhouse

Hoverfly presents its cute little behind for the camera. Happy Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday! The weekend is just around the corner, hooray!

Large hoverfly Volucella zonaria on hebe. Strong natural light. Oshiro 60mm lens

Olympus E-M1.2 + 30mm f3.5 macro.

Focus stack in camera, edited in Lightroom and Topaz.

The Mahonia was buzzing today in the sunshine! First Hoverflies spotted in ages!

Hoverfly Scaeva selenitica in bound on a crocus

Hoverfly almost bursting with eggs visible through its transparent sides! At National Trust Castle Ward, Northern Ireland

Hoverfly on camellia leaf. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on the hydrangea in my garden.

Hoverfly Myathropa florea on a mollis azalea flower. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly by my pond

Hoverfly larva. Focus stacked using zerene

Quite a few of these Helophilus hoverflies in our Staffordshire garden at the moment. There seem to be (to my untrained eye), several different species. These have much paler thoracic stripes to some of the others. Can anyone confirm the species?

Hoverfly Sphaerophoria scripta feeding on ox-eye daisy

Hoverfly on hebe. Eupeodes sp.

Hoverfly zoom, sitting on a euphorbia seed pod. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly at the bottom of my garden.

Leigh Sinton, Worcs

Taken at Oxwich, Gower, Wales, UK. No graphics please.

Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri

Hoverfly on Callistemon leaf. Focus stacked using zerene. Sytphus sp.

Hoverfly Myathropa florea on marguerite. Natural light

Hoverfly Myathropa florea. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly - Rhingia campestris - Highdown gdns. Natural light.

I only very rarely see these in my own garden but they were all over the place at Highdown

Either a female Syrphus or Epistrophe species. Any ident help much appreciated.

Hoverfly on Hebe balanced on an anther

Hoverfly on crocus

Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri in flight

Hoverfly visitor. Scaeva pyrastri feeding on Hebe. Natural light

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus in flight

At least I think its a hoverfly but not sure, anyone know for certain?

© Mike Broome 2023

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria female - full flash

Hoverfly

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens on valerian. Natural light

Hoverfly Volucella pellucens. Fill flash. Focus stacked using zerene

Volucella pellucens

Flies at head height, lays her eggs in the underground paper nests of the common

wasp. The larvae of the Hoverfly will then feed on the wasps young and dead adults. When fully grown the larvae leave the nest and pupate in the soil below to emerge the following year as an Adult Hoverfly.

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus sitting on my finger

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum in flight

Hoverfly Dasysyrphus albostriatus in miniature pine

In my garden 25th April 2011

Hoverfly, Udon Thani International Airport, (VTUD), Thailand

Hoverfly Syrphus sp. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene