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Hoverfly in mid flight about to land on a milkweed plant, originally intended for Monarch butterflies.
Hoverfly on St John's Wort at Copper Hill
There must surely be Folklore associated with St Johns Wort - named after St John the Baptist whose feastday is in mid-summer, and now known to enhance mood and well-being. Anyone supply any info??
A hoverfly caught with a tele lens and manual focus. Panasonic GX7 with Panasonic 45-200mm. Ambient light only, high ISO and heavy crop. (And unfortunately some post sharpening and extra noise after uploading :( ) Settings: ISO2000 f5.6 200mm 1/640
hoverfly, (eristacs tenax) feeds on toxic hemlock, (conium maculatum) along the becks, langholm, dumfries and galloway, scotland. view large
Hoverflies
I saw two hoverflies attend
A willowherb in bloom.
One perched to drink and would not shift
To give the other room.
The other levelled in the air
Unable to alight,
But fixed his eyes and kept the flower
Steady in his sight.
Satisfied, the drinker dropped
Half-senseless by the way;
I cannot tell what happened next
Because I did not stay,
But by my heart, I hope the other
Sought no deeper share,
But stared with longing all his life
And lingered in the air.
One was like a constant friend,
One like a passing lover:
One glad to drink and and fall away,
And one content to hover.
Song lyric by Giles Watson, 2013.