Infinite Eye Contact - _TNY_5464
You're looking into the many compound eyes of a male yellow-barred peat hoverfly (Sericomyia silentis), also known as the bog hoverfly, on meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) in the Mjällådalen Nature Reserve, about 37 km (23 miles) from Härnösand, Sweden.
This is also a very good shot to see how the antennae of flies are constituted. The antennae are in my opinion the easiest way to tell a fly from a bee/wasp as the latter have long antennae. The name "hornet" actually stems from the antennae resembling horns.
Me and my son ate our lunch just two or three meters from this meadowsweet and we actually had a close (but more rare) relative of this one land on the table - this female white-barred peat hoverfly (Sericomyia lappona): www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53159110864/
Infinite Eye Contact - _TNY_5464
You're looking into the many compound eyes of a male yellow-barred peat hoverfly (Sericomyia silentis), also known as the bog hoverfly, on meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) in the Mjällådalen Nature Reserve, about 37 km (23 miles) from Härnösand, Sweden.
This is also a very good shot to see how the antennae of flies are constituted. The antennae are in my opinion the easiest way to tell a fly from a bee/wasp as the latter have long antennae. The name "hornet" actually stems from the antennae resembling horns.
Me and my son ate our lunch just two or three meters from this meadowsweet and we actually had a close (but more rare) relative of this one land on the table - this female white-barred peat hoverfly (Sericomyia lappona): www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53159110864/