🦟Autumn Hoverflies on the Wing –Oct Edition 🦟

What have you spotted recently?

Comment below how many you have spotted or what you haven't see yet.

Or any other ones you have seen?

#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Pollinators #Nature #Syrphidae #Entomology #Entomologist #Naturalhistory #Autumn

🦟 Hoverfly Spotted 🦟

Female Marmalade (Episyrphus balteatus) wearing her silver bracelets - whilst visiting Common Centaury (Centaurium erythraea), this lovely pink five petalled flower.

Spotted yesterday.

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Still nice variety of hoverflies outside the @ldvnnr.bsky.social centre at Bank Island yesterday. Cheilosia proxima, Dasysyrphus albostriatus, Dasysyrphus tricinctus and Syrphus ribesii. @ynuorg.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #hoverflies #syrphidae

📖 📚 Beyond the Garden Gate Zine ✂️📖

Here are 6 common hoverflies found beyond the garden gate, presented into a Zine

Hope you like it.

#Zine #Art #ArtAppreciation #NatureIllustration #Crafts #Hoverflies #flies #Insects #pollinator #nature #syrphidae

My 6th record of Callicera spinolae (Ivy Longhorn Hoverfly) on Ivy in my S. Cambridgeshire garden this autumn and the 3rd male. Unlike the previous 2 males, he wasn't camera-shy, and I got some better photos of this incredibly rare UK BAP Priority Species.

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Up Now Fine Dining with the Devil? in todays extended episode Part 2 DBS we look at a primer on #Pollination #Pollinators & #Protandry in #DevilsBitScabious we look at the #Botany #Entomology #BSBI #BSBIIreland #BSBIBotany & Introduce feeding in #Hoverflies #Syrphidae #Diptera youtu.be/Hx13B2EMJVo

Sun Fly (Helophilus pendulus)

Resting is much easier than flapping around. But... the flaw in that plan is that it can be a wee bit lonely, and man, I'm starvin'

handheld focus stack of 53 shots using natural light

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