Unusually Social - _TNY_8437
This tiny beauty on the flower of a house leek (Sempervivum tectorum) is a female long hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta).
I found her there while looking for carder bees and disvovered that she wasn't scared by the camera at all.
I could try loads of settings and levels of magnification and flash power and what not and she stayed on the flower.
After getting a bunch of shots, I stood up - but this made her abandon the flower and begin circling my head instead!
Her wings produced a rather high-pitched, almost mosquito-like, sound and she stayed around me while I walked about five meters to a different flower in the garden. By now I was quite amused by her behaviour and held out my hand and lo and behold, she landed on it - and I got a shot of her there as well (coming later).
Unusually Social - _TNY_8437
This tiny beauty on the flower of a house leek (Sempervivum tectorum) is a female long hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta).
I found her there while looking for carder bees and disvovered that she wasn't scared by the camera at all.
I could try loads of settings and levels of magnification and flash power and what not and she stayed on the flower.
After getting a bunch of shots, I stood up - but this made her abandon the flower and begin circling my head instead!
Her wings produced a rather high-pitched, almost mosquito-like, sound and she stayed around me while I walked about five meters to a different flower in the garden. By now I was quite amused by her behaviour and held out my hand and lo and behold, she landed on it - and I got a shot of her there as well (coming later).