Big Red Eyes - _TNY_1079

Here is a not so common visitor on a beautifully pink great masterwort (Astrantia major) - a male straight-veined marsh hoverfly.

 

People more knowledgable than me in the ways of hoverflies say it is one of three species:

Orthonevra geniculata, O. stackelbergi or O. intermedia, but that it isn't possible to tell which one.

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