Hoverfly feeding on camelia flower. Focus stacked using zerene

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

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 and Foxglove

Hoverfly Sphaerophoria scripta male. Would have preferred to take a natural light shot but it was far too windy.

Hoverfly Syrphus sp. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly

Hoverfly Cheilosia sp.

In my garden 20th May 2011

Of course this is a mimic of the yellowjacket. It is very noisy and fierce acting but completly harmless! My dog snaps at them. I just take some snaps.

“Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.” Emily Dickenson

Hoverfly feeding on pollen on lace hydrangea

Hoverfly on holly flowers

Hoverfly- Eupeodes sp. on marguerite

Hoverfly - Syrphus

Hoverfly

Hoverfly on marguerite- Eupeodes sp.

Hoverfly Volucella pellucens. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on a flower

Hoverfly. Dasysyrphus albostriatus

neck area of hoverfly

Hoverfly

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus - a latecomer to the hoverfly shooting session the other day

Hoverfly Melangyna collinum, Taroona, Tasmania, November 2016

Hoverfly landing sequence. Touch down. Natural light

Haven't seen this one before- resting on variagated holly leaf

Hoverfly, flower flies, or syrphid flies

insect family Syrphidae

Achillea millefolium, commonly known as yarrow /ˈjæroʊ/ or common yarrow, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae

Hoverfly on hebe. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum on a bluebell. Having had the hoverfly on my hand , I persuaded it to go back onto a bluebell flower for a final shot

Lesser bulb hoverfly Eumerus species. Focus stacked using zerene

Smallish hover about 9mm body length

see www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/208929912/ for a crop from this shot

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria feeding. Natural light

hoverfly with hand up trying to get some attention...

still a few around

hoverfly resting for a minute on some orange flowers.

Flies in the family Syrphidae are commonly known as hoverflies, flower flies, or syrphid flies.

Hoverfly Meredon equestris on hebe. Natural light

Hoverfly on poppy. Natural light. Highdown gardens Worthing.

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens

Hoverfly in flight over potentilla

hoverfly - love&life

Hoverfly feeding on camelia flower

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum on my finger. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria natural light

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus doing what they are supposed to