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Dual Yellow Stripes, Pt. 2 - _TNY_1828

This pretty visitor on the great masterwort (Astrantia major) is a male two-banded wasp hoverfly (Chrysotoxum bicinctum).

 

Somewhere along the way, he got a dent in the abdomen, but seemed to fly around as usual.

 

Pt. 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/43027830050/

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Uploaded on January 3, 2019
Taken on August 1, 2017