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, Sphaerophoria scripta on margeurite

Taken during one of my (failed) attempts to photograph a hoverfly in flight. I like this hoverfly - especially the wraparound eyes!

Handheld, natural light, cropped.

Hoverfly (Epistrophe sp.) at the Rifle Range, a Steyning Downland Scheme managed Nature Reserve,South Downs National Park, West Sussex England

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 Epistrophe eligans

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

Hoverfly on daffodil

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria on margeurite

Hoverfly feeding on azalea pollen. Syrphus torvus

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

Hoverfly on kniphofia flower in our Brisbane garden.

Hoverfly Scaeva sp. on hebe flowers

Hoverfly larva on the i=underside of an oakbush leaf. Seems to have raided a barkfly nest

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 Volucella zonaria feeding. Natural light

I believe this to be a Hoverfly so I had a look at pictures of UK Hoverflies to try to identify it but I ended up more confused than ever.

Marmalade hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus on hebe. Natural light

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Dasysyrphus albostriatus on lawn weed. 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

Hoverfly on a Lilac coloured poppy in our holiday cottage garden

Hoverfly inbound on hebe sequence. Strong natural light

Hoverfly on margeurite