Hoverfly (Syrphidae). Hover-flies are now being recognized as important natural enemies of pests.

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus

Hoverfly feeding on euphorbia. Natural light. Think this is Epistrophe nitidicollis

Hoverfly

Strobist info: Soligor MZ 400 AFM program flash + homemade diffuser (2 layers of kitchen towel).

Specs: 200mm DC lens + 68mm AF extension tubes.

Hoverfly in flight

Hoverfly on log

Hoverfly on camelia leaf feeding on sugar/honey syrup

Hoverfly Myathropa florea. Strong natural light. 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

Hoverfly out in the first bit of sun for a while

Hoverfly feeding on hebe flowers - Episyrphus balteatus

Hoverfly

Hoverfly

Eristalis pertinax, female

Witham, Essex

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly macro

Hoverfly on the car back window

Hoverfly feeding on dandelion flower

Hoverfly having a feast of dandelion pollen.

One hoverfly feeding on a Day Lily, another arriving from bottom left.

Snapped in Geoff Hamilton's garden in Barnsdale.

Hoverflies and flowers in the garden

Hoverfly on blackberry flower. Full flash at ISO1600

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.

Hoverfly on an iris petal in light rain. View on black.

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus in flight

Hoverfly feeding on azalea pollen. Syrphus torvus

Hoverfly Sphaerophoria sp. on Japanese anemone

Eupeodes luniger perchance?

I had noticed a few hoverflies in the backyard, but by far and away the best place near me to see these cute wee beasties is at the local garden centre!

Hoverfly on potentilla Syrphus sp. It has a rather dented thorax

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens

National Trusts Nature Reserve at Holme Fen, which is a part of The Great Fen, Huntingdon, UK.

Hoverfly Scaeva sp. on hebe flowers

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum

Hoverfly - Syrphus sp. enjoying some sugar/honey syrup. Focus stacked using zerene

Yesterday the garden was full of Hoverflies, so that's where I turned my attention to. I think this one is having a pee?

Hoverfly Myathropa florea. First of the year. Strong natural light

Hoverfly BR7 6th June

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

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 Melanostoma scalare

Hoverfly on crocus

Hoverfly Myathropa florea. Strong natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum

Hoverfly

Syrphus sp.?

North Shoebury, Essex