Hoverfly resting in our Brisbane garden. Length can be 7-10mm.

Hoverfly Scaeva pyrastri. Spotted this on a minature pine tree- think it had recently emerged. This hoverfly has interesting angular compound eyes

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on ground elder. Cheilosia sp. I think

Hoverfly on the strange green flowered plant (forgotten the name)

Volucella pellucens

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus feeding on potentilla

Hoverfly Syrphus torvus on potentilla

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus

Hoverfly feeding on sugar/honey syrup. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria on marguerite

Hoverfly feeding on sugar/honey syrup. Eupeodes sp. ?

Hoverfly - syrphus ribesii on a sunflower in my garden. The colours of the hoverfly match the sunflower nicely.

Hoverfly on crocus

Hoverfly on the edge of a kale leaf.

Tamron SP Di 90mm F/2.8 (272E). 1:1 macro plus a moderate crop.

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Hoverfly Scaeva selenitica

Hoverfly & Flower

Hoverfly on passion flower. Focus stacked using zerene

Grafton Park Wood, near Grafton Underwood, Northants UK.

Hoverfly Myathropa florae.

Hoverfly Didea sp. on lace hydrangea

There are two more views (linked to full size photo) in the first comment.

Beveree Park TQ138697 April 2014

Thanks all for the info: Syrphidae are commonly known as hoverflies, flower flies, or syrphid flies.

I had taken two shot in close succession and this one was sharpest, except for the upper wing. So I copied and pasted the wing from the other shot. It was the right size and only needed a fraction of a degree of rotation to fit nicely.

A late Syrphus sp. hoverfly taken on 4th Dec. Focus stacked using zerene.

See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/11232942623/ for a 3D version

Hoverfly Dasysyrphus albostriatus

Toxomerus occidentalis next to Centennial Park in El Cerrito.

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum. Focus stacked using zerene stacker

Hoverfly.

Zerene stack Pmax.

108 steps @ 20 um.

Nikon D7100 + AFD 200 F5.6 ISO 200

Mitutoyo M Plan APO 5X.

FG led module flash time: 8 msec power 6800 lumen.

Hoverfly and Bumblebee.

Hoverfly - Myathropa florae one of the larger hoverflies, the males are very territorial and like perching on high spots with a good view (often my flash diffuser)

Hoverfly on grass head and raindrops

Scotland, June 2011

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria. Natural light

Hoverfly pupa. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly under the leaf. Dasysyrphus albostriatus. Natural light

Female Volucella zonaria hoverfly on teasel flowers

Hoverfly Scaeva selenitica

Hoverfly on Sunflower

Macro shot of a hoverfly ...not sure what he's doing, but I do have a suspicion!

Hoverfly (Helophilus pendulus)

Hoverflies from the Wyre Forest in Shropshire:

Some specimens of Sphegina clunipes (dark coloured flies) and Sphegina sibirica (light coloured flies) - this hoverfly has only colonised the UK in recent years.

Hoverfly on a flower

Hoverfly feeding on sugar/honey syrup on my finger

Hoverfly feeding on camelia flower. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly (Chrysotoxum bicinctum) at Chiddingfold Forest, Oaken Wood Butterfly Reserve, Surrey England

Hoverfly and Foxglove

Hoverfly Syrphus sp. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly

Hoverfly on marguerite- Eupeodes sp.