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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
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.
Eupeodes luniger
Hoverfly Myathropa florae portrait. Found this in the kitchen doing the normal trick of trying to fly through a window pane. Trapped it- gave it a drop of honey and waited for it to settle and feed before doing some shots and then releasing it outside
Hoverfly (Allograpta obliqua), on a Skeleton Plant flower (Lygodesmia texana). Adults feed on nectar while their larvae feed on aphids.
Definitely best viewed large.
Raynox DCR-150 mounted on my Panasonic FZ8.
Another hoverfly in flight :-)
Marmalade Fly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Doing what it does best!
Shot using the 7D & EF 300mm f/4L IS USM with 25mm of extension tubes.
Light using a hotshoe mounted Speedlight 430EX II in manual mode.
Manually focused, approx half lifesize then cropped further.
This wasp look-alike insect is completely harmless. Seen here displaying its unique mouth-piece superbly adapted for nectaring at flowers and plants. Noticed its tongue stretched almost the entire length of its body in order to reach for the nectar deep inside the interior of the flower. In human term, if you got such a long apparatus you probably have the benefit of sucking your friend's soup (sitting 2 tables away) dry before he even had noticed.
I wonder how and where he stored his lengthy apparatus.
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Size : approx 12mm
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