Hoverfly Cheilosia caerulescens ?

hoverfly on margeurite - Eupeodes corollae

Hoverfly

Hoverfly on camelia leaf feeding on sugar/honey syrup

Hoverfly on a door frame. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus on variagated rhododendron leaf

Hoverfly on a mint flower. He didn't stay still for long.

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria on marguerite

Hoverfly 15

th July

Hoverfly on a Gulltörel in the flower bed. Zoom out to see the flower in it's original color.

A rather hopeful hoverfly- Melanostoma scalare on sun chair.

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens on ox-eye daisy. Natural light

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum on patrol. Natural light

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

Hoverfly feeding on miniature hebe. Focus stacked using zerene

I just moved recently. The new place is by the main road. I underestimated the traffic of Shanghai, and now I am suffering from sleeplessness due to the sounds from the horns and brakes. (Drivers here use their horns and brakes mercilessly.)

Today, I tried the airconditioner of my place since it is a bloody 34 deg, and it was making as much noise as the traffic below. I wonder how I am going to survive the summer...

P.S: I have a series of shots of this little flying creature making love to my camera last sunday. Pls bear with me for a while till I finish posting its pics on flickr.

Hoverfly on peppermint

Hoverfly

Hoverfly Volucella sp on hebe. Natural light

Hoverfly Dasysyrphus albostriatus

Hoverfly Volucella pellucens on hebe. Natural light

Zweefvlieg, Syrphidae

Canon 40D

Canon EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

ISO 250, 1/160 sec., f/3,5

+1 EV

Hoverfly in Flight

Hoverfly Heringia sp. in a miniature pine. Focus stacked using zerene

I love hoverflies. Useful little insects, and the garden is full of them again this year. I always plant open faced and daisy type flowers to attract them in. Took me several failed blurry attempts before I got this one on a Sidalcea flower in a bit more sharp detail!

Hoverfly Helophilus pendulus on a variegated rhododendron leaf. Strong natural light

Alarmingly few insects around in the garden today - not even that many greenfly on the roses. But this hoverfly was quite cooperative.

Hovering and feeding at Westbury Court Garden. Eupeodes luniger.

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria on marguerite

Hoverfly on camelia leaf. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly taken with fill flash- probably Dasysyrphus albostriatus

Lots of Hoverflies still around, they really do enjoy the Scabious.

Hoverfly

Hoverfly- Episyrphus balteatus

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens on ox-eye daisy. Natural light

Hoverfly (I think, could be a soldier fly maybe)

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus feeding on some sugar/honey spray on camelia leaf

Hoverfly Xanthogramma pedissequum

Hoverfly Syrphus torvus. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on my bean pole stabiliser. Xanthandrus comtus

Hoverfly on camelia leaf. Focus stacked using zerene.

Probably Meliscaeva auricollis

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

Hoverfly feeding on sugar/honey syrup on my finger

Hoverfly egg-laying on blackberry. Eupeodes sp. I think

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens on weed flower

Hoverfly on my finger

Hoverfly TQ 40104 68783

Hoverfly on Nigella flower. ID'd as Eupeodes latifasciatus - not seen this one before. Interesting watching hoverflies trying to feed on these flowers- only the smaller ones could get through the foliage to the flowers

Hoverfly on the wall by the back door