Hoverfly landing sequence. Touch down. Natural light

Hoverfly

A Hoverfly search plants for pollen and nectar along the road to the north beach access at Huntington Beach State Park.

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Hoverfly - Meliscaeva ?

Hoverfly (Ischiodon scutellaris) drinking nectar from Lampranthus deltoides flower

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Hoverfly on sunchair . Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly

Syrphus sp.?

Thorpe Bay, Essex

Hoverfly on camelia leaf. Focus stacked using zerene

I tried the Nikon 200-400mm on various insects today - and was quite pleased with the results! Everything shot at 400mm

Hoverfly getting pollen from flower

Hoverfly on camelia - Eupeodes sp. probably E. luniger

Hoverfly on rhododendron

Hoverflies at langold lake

A hoverfly, possibly Volucella inanis, on a celandine (Ranunculus ficaria) on a bank on Maendy Way, just above the Springvale Roundabout.

Hoverfly sunning on ash tree, Brockholes, Lancs.

Think this is the best in flight shot I've captured yet

Hoverfly

Seriocomyia silentis

Credit: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

August 2012

Hoverfly Scaeva selenitica

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus feeding on lace hydrangea sequence

Hoverflies out in force today at Snakeholme Pit.

Hoverfly feeding on sugar/honey drop. Syrphus sp.

Hoverfly on Euphorbia flower head. Eupeodes sp.

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Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Myathropa florea on potentilla. Natural light

hoverfly on margeurite - Eupeodes corollae

A Hoverfly comes to rest on Broad-leaved Willowherb, taken with a Raynox dcr-250 converter lens on a Panasonic 45-200mm

Hoverfly Scaeva selenitica . Natural light

Hoverfly sitting on a sunchair. Focus stacked using zerene stacker

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Garden April 2009

View On Black

A hoverfly in my garden. It landed just long enough for me to take one photo luckily it was in focus.

Hoverfly Dasysyrphus albostriatus on a fence rail. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly. Natural light

Hard job to find any insects these days & with a cool northerly stiff breeze even harder today. Managed to find just 3 in the gdn when sun came out this afternoon.

Think this is one of the many hoverflies but cannot id it

The hoverfly is a bee mimic and has no stinger. It is just a pretty fly that can scare you. Doesn't it look terribly dangerous sipping nectar from the aster?

For two years now I have been admiring the amazing Creation that lives just inside my ability to focus. You know what I mean ... all those little creatures and plants that we know are there but can't really look at because they are a little too small or move a little to fast. Macrophotography is truly a great way to capture and share the marvels of this middle world.

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Hoverfly Syrphus torvus

Hoverfly taken in bright sun using flash.

Trying to see if a cheap 2ND filter helps reduce the strong sun exposure which gives ugly specular highlights giving the diffused flash a chance to light the subject. Normally with these settings the flash output would be minimal.

It does seem to help.

probably Eupeodes luniger

Hoverfly on camelia leaf. Probably Meliscaeva auricolis

Hoverflies are very amorous.

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Hoverfly 15

th July

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

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus

Hoverfly on Hebe. Meliscaeva sp I think

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