Hoverfly on a sun chair. Syrphus sp.

Hoverfly on miniature pine. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria on ox-eye daisy. Natural light

Hoverfly

Hoverfly portrait. Episyrphus balteatus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on potentilla Dasysyrphus albostriatus. Natural light

Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae

Hoverfly on crocus. Natural light

Bemidji, Minnesota

Summer 2013

The larva of a hoverfly (family Syrphidae). Hoverfly maggots are uncannily leech-like in movement; they will often raise and stretch the front half of their body and wave their minuscule head back and forth. They are active predators and can be found amongst aggregates of their favorite prey: aphids.

Hoverfly Scaeva selentica feeding on a crocus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly with torn wing - suspect this is a birth accident - not the normal werar and tear you see.

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum

Hoverfly in flight. Natural light. Episyrphus balteatus

Hoverfly resting on blueberry leaf at Chorley Lancs.

Hoverfly egg on honeysuckle leaf. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Myathropa florea on sun chair

Hoverfly Epistrophe eligans

Hoverfly Eupeodes.sp.

Hoverfly, Mae Hia, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus

Hoverfly on a Marigold.

Taken at Middleton Lakes

Hoverfly

Hoverfly Epistrophe eligans

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus

hoverfly Epistrophe nitidicollis

Hoverfly Myathropa florea

Hoverfly Scaeva sp. on hebe flowers

Hoverfly nectarsing flowers in Chorley.

Hoverfly Sphaerophoria sp. on Japanese anemone. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Epistrophe elegans

Hoverfly....with flash.

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly taken in bright sun using flash.

Trying to see if a cheap 2ND filter helps reduce the strong sun exposure which gives ugly specular highlights giving the diffused flash a chance to light the subject. Normally with these settings the flash output would be minimal.

It does seem to help

Fine & sunny @ Titchwell first thing, 3 species of hoverflies on the Alexanders by west bank path. One was a common Marmalade & one a Drone fly. Unsure about this, I have the book but get more unsure now every time I look at it except for the well known hovers.

By time I got home @ lunchtime cloud cover all over with wind & it felt like 10 degrees colder, no insects to be seen on my winter heathers!

Hoverfly (Chrysotoxum bicinctum)

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus . Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly

Hoverfly on my finger. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Myathropa florea. Natural light

Hoverfly on a sun chair - Episyrphus balteatus male

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus on my finger

Hoverfly Epistrophe eligans. Has a tiny dewdrop on it's "nose"

A hoverfly, possibly Eristalis pertinax, on the hedge, brushing itself off in the sun.