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Tiny Bonus - _TNY_0255

One of the favourite shots I've captured is this one: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51260776665/ - a female hairy Melangyna (Melangyna lasiophthalma) on a pennywort an early spring day when not many other bugs were out and about.

 

After that hoverfly left the flower however, there was in fact a second visitor on the same couple of flowers - this much much smaller one.

 

I am not at all sure what species it is, but I'm thinking it is some sort of tiny parasitic wasp.

 

This was shot at 3:1 magnification and it is still small. I also shot a video of it next to my finger which helps explain the scale here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51965857462/

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Uploaded on March 28, 2022
Taken on April 10, 2021