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I was just looking over the new prints I made in 2025. Think about portraying pollinators. This print shows a great little pollinator in the garden: a transverse-banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa) on Echinacea purpurea or purple coneflower. Because of its yellow stripes, tendency to hover (it’s a hover fly after all) and love of flowers, this little insect can be mistaken for a bee, but it’s a bee-mimic fly. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #insect #flowerFly #echinacea

I was just looking over the new prints I made in 2025. Think about portraying pollinators. This print shows a great little pollinator in the garden: a transverse-banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa) on Echinacea purpurea or purple coneflower. Because of its yellow stripes, tendency to hover (it’s a hover fly after all) and love of flowers, this little insect can be mistaken for a bee, but it’s a bee-mimic fly. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #insect #flowerFly #echinacea

I was just looking over the new prints I made in 2025. Think about portraying pollinators. This print shows a great little pollinator in the garden: a transverse-banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa) on Echinacea purpurea or purple coneflower. Because of its yellow stripes, tendency to hover (it’s a hover fly after all) and love of flowers, this little insect can be mistaken for a bee, but it’s a bee-mimic fly. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #insect #flowerFly #echinacea

I was just looking over the new prints I made in 2025. Think about portraying pollinators. This print shows a great little pollinator in the garden: a transverse-banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa) on Echinacea purpurea or purple coneflower. Because of its yellow stripes, tendency to hover (it’s a hover fly after all) and love of flowers, this little insect can be mistaken for a bee, but it’s a bee-mimic fly. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #insect #flowerFly #echinacea

I was just looking over the new prints I made in 2025. Think about portraying pollinators. This print shows a great little pollinator in the garden: a transverse-banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa) on Echinacea purpurea or purple coneflower. Because of its yellow stripes, tendency to hover (it’s a hover fly after all) and love of flowers, this little insect can be mistaken for a bee, but it’s a bee-mimic fly. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #insect #flowerFly #echinacea

Day 14 #SciArtSeptember prompt is mimic. This print shows a great little pollinator in the garden: a transverse-banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa) on Echinacea purpurea or purple coneflower. Because of its yellow stripes, tendency to hover (it’s a hover fly after all) and love of flowers, this little insect can be mistaken for a bee, but it’s a bee-mimic fly. Like the bees, it’s an important pollinator and 🧵1/2
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #insect #flowerFly #echinacea #mastoArt

The transverse-banded flower fly and purple coneflowers are native to eastern North America. Each print is made by hand on assorted, beautiful Japanese washi papers and collaged to make the final 8” x 10” image, which are hand-embellished with posca pens.

#linocut #printmaking #washi #flowerFly #insect #pollinator #echinacea #coneflower #sciart #mastoArt

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Time to carve a new block! This is a transverse-banded flower fly in progress. Because of its yellow and black stripes, tendency to hover (it’s a hover fly after all) and love of flowers, it can be mistaken for a bee. But no, it’s a fly. The eyes are the real giveaway for this bee mimic, to my mind. While not a bee, it is an excellent pollinator and another friend to gardeners.

#linocut #printmaking #flowerFly #insect #sciart #wip #pollinators #mastoArt

New hoverfly just dropped. Pretty sure I haven't seen this one before. Hoverflies have coloring like bees to scare away birds and other predators.
Yellow-legged Flower Fly (Syrphus rectus) #flowerfly #hoverfly #fly #flies #macro #macrophotography

@plants @nature Another (late 😆 ) #Throwback to #July #InsectThursday #FlowersOnFriday + #FlyDay +early #WildflowerHour Illustrating the value of as wide a range of flowering plants as possible, both many natives and exotics- especially those that extend the season at times fewer natives are flowering (here that's both early + late, though I do have non-natives flowering all summer).
#flowers #NativeBees #bees #FlowerFly #butterfly #pollinators #NaturalGardening #NativePlants #florespondence

#FlowersOnFriday #Throwback to #June mix of #NativePlants + exotics in the #RockGarden + #wildflowers + #pollinators
@plants @nature
top L native (from the mountains) Erigeron compositus w Erysimum sp; R Arnica angustifolia (from the foothills);
Centre Pink Dandelion/Taraxacum pseudoroseum (+ some weeds!) w local native Mertensia paniculata, which has found its own way into garden beds;
bottom L wild Caltha palustris w #FlowerFly R #dandelion w #bumblebee #biodiversity #florespondence

@determinerik dug up a few pics of one of my Sonchus / Sow Thistle patches, from August and September, didn't come across any that show the whole plants, but some idea of them and a few of the many pollinators-- a couple of tiny #WildBees and a #FlowerFly #weeds #PollinatorGardening #insects #florespondence #MarginalGardening

@determinerik dug up a few pics of one of my Sonchus / Sow Thistle patches, from August and September, didn't come across any that show the whole plants, but some idea of them and a few of the many pollinators-- a couple of tiny #WildBees and a #FlowerFly #weeds #PollinatorGardening #insects #florespondence #MarginalGardening

@determinerik dug up a few pics of one of my Sonchus / Sow Thistle patches, from August and September, didn't come across any that show the whole plants, but some idea of them and a few of the many pollinators-- a couple of tiny #WildBees and a #FlowerFly #weeds #PollinatorGardening #insects #florespondence #MarginalGardening

@determinerik dug up a few pics of one of my Sonchus / Sow Thistle patches, from August and September, didn't come across any that show the whole plants, but some idea of them and a few of the many pollinators-- a couple of tiny #WildBees and a #FlowerFly #weeds #PollinatorGardening #insects #florespondence #MarginalGardening

@plants @nature late #ThrowbackThursday meets #FlowersOnFriday this is from #May, a mix of #wildflowers and #garden with a bonus #FlowerFly #Syrphid (?) #florespondence #Alberta #pollinators
top L Glechoma hederacea in garden;R wild native Viola nephrophylla; centre wild Caltha palustris (Mollyblobs 😆 ); bottom Rhodiola rosea in the garden, with a jewel like fly. I've been surprised by how big and showy these became after just a couple of years of being tiny seedlings! #RockGarden

@plants @nature late #ThrowbackThursday meets #FlowersOnFriday this is from #May, a mix of #wildflowers and #garden with a bonus #FlowerFly #Syrphid (?) #florespondence #Alberta #pollinators
top L Glechoma hederacea in garden;R wild native Viola nephrophylla; centre wild Caltha palustris (Mollyblobs 😆 ); bottom Rhodiola rosea in the garden, with a jewel like fly. I've been surprised by how big and showy these became after just a couple of years of being tiny seedlings! #RockGarden

@plants @nature late #ThrowbackThursday meets #FlowersOnFriday this is from #May, a mix of #wildflowers and #garden with a bonus #FlowerFly #Syrphid (?) #florespondence #Alberta #pollinators
top L Glechoma hederacea in garden;R wild native Viola nephrophylla; centre wild Caltha palustris (Mollyblobs 😆 ); bottom Rhodiola rosea in the garden, with a jewel like fly. I've been surprised by how big and showy these became after just a couple of years of being tiny seedlings! #RockGarden

@plants @nature late #ThrowbackThursday meets #FlowersOnFriday this is from #May, a mix of #wildflowers and #garden with a bonus #FlowerFly #Syrphid (?) #florespondence #Alberta #pollinators
top L Glechoma hederacea in garden;R wild native Viola nephrophylla; centre wild Caltha palustris (Mollyblobs 😆 ); bottom Rhodiola rosea in the garden, with a jewel like fly. I've been surprised by how big and showy these became after just a couple of years of being tiny seedlings! #RockGarden

@plants @nature late #ThrowbackThursday meets #FlowersOnFriday this is from #May, a mix of #wildflowers and #garden with a bonus #FlowerFly #Syrphid (?) #florespondence #Alberta #pollinators
top L Glechoma hederacea in garden;R wild native Viola nephrophylla; centre wild Caltha palustris (Mollyblobs 😆 ); bottom Rhodiola rosea in the garden, with a jewel like fly. I've been surprised by how big and showy these became after just a couple of years of being tiny seedlings! #RockGarden

#Eristalis transversa, transverse-banded #FlowerFly (#Syrphidae) is my "spark bug". When I first noticed it in my #Brooklyn backyard in 2009, I thought it was a bee! When I learned it was a #Fly (#Diptera, "two-winged"), I was hooked.

When I saw how many different insects my #NativePlants attracted, I devoted my entire #Garden to #WildlifeHabitat #Gardening.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98277733

#InverteFest2022 #iNaturalist #Macro #Photography #Insects #FlowerVisitors #Pollinators #Photos #InverteFest

Thanks to #insomnia, I just discovered that another of my #macro #photos has been selected as the reference photo for an #iNaturalist species home page: Syrphus rectus, yellow-legged flower fly, visiting the flowers of a NOID Symphyotrichum, North American aster, in my front #garden September of last year.

https://flic.kr/p/2mB7jbC

#Flies #Diptera #Syrphidae #FlowerFly #HoverFly #UrbanGardening #HabitatGardening #Pollinators

A flower fly in Central Park in mid-june.

#flowerfly #fly #Insects #bugs #nature #wildlife #entomology #centralpark #nycparks #macro #ultramacro #venusoptics #canonphotography #luminarneo