Hoverfly

Credit: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

29 April 2013

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies, or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many ... Wikipedia

Scientific name: Syrphidae

Family: Syrphidae; Latreille, 1802

Order: Diptera

Higher classification: Syrphoidea

Rank: Family

Did you know: One hover fly larva can consume the body fluids of hundreds of aphids. butterflyfunfacts.com

There are over 280 species of hoverflies in Britain and around 140 of these have been recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland

see here for info www.naturespot.org.uk/taxonomy/term/19415

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

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

Credit: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

6 August 2013

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

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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A hoverfly pollinates a Western Yarrow in Beadle County, SD. Photo by Soil Conservationist Samantha Pucket

Hoverfly Scaeva selenitica

Hoverfly

Species not yet identified

Benfleet, Essex

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria on hebe. Natural light

Hoverfly & Flower

Hoverfly on passion flower. Focus stacked using zerene

A great little Hoverfly (Ocyptamus fascipennis) snacking on a flower.

Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG APO Macro mounted on a Canon Xti.

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

Eristalis

Hoverfly Dasysyrphus albostriatus

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria on a mission. She then landed right by the nest hole, waited a few seconds and started walking in

HESC April-14

hoverfly on partially opened zinnia with fully open zinnia in the background. taken at the john jeffries house garden in boston

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum. Focus stacked using zerene stacker

Hoverfly Sphaerophoria sp. on Japanese anemone. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly and Bumblebee.

Hoverfly on grass head and raindrops

Scotland, June 2011

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

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 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 on marguerite- Eupeodes sp.

Hoverfly Cheilosia sp.

Hoverfly feeding on pollen on lace hydrangea