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@digitalpardoe

This is not a #bee but a #hoverFly.

#Bees always have 2 long antennae and 4 wings

@digitalpardoe

This is not a #bee but a #hoverFly.

#Bees always have 2 long antennae and 4 wings

@digitalpardoe

This is not a #bee but a #hoverFly.

#Bees always have 2 long antennae and 4 wings

@digitalpardoe

This is not a #bee but a #hoverFly.

#Bees always have 2 long antennae and 4 wings

@digitalpardoe

This is not a #bee but a #hoverFly.

#Bees always have 2 long antennae and 4 wings

A #Hoverfly rests on a green leaf.

Its dark body stays close to the leaf edge while the green blade runs farther beneath it.

#CanonR5MarkII #AMIR2000NLPhotography #MacroPhotography

Aphids spring to life in spring | Master Gardener | Lifestyles https://www.allforgardening.com/1672239/aphids-spring-to-life-in-spring-master-gardener-lifestyles/ #agriculture #ant... #aphid #BiologicalPestControl #coccinellidae #garden #gardener #gardening #Honeydew(secretion) #hoverfly #insect #insecticide #insects #InsectsAndHumans #Kingdoms(biology) #leaf #organisms #plant #plants #SootyMold

Aphids spring to life in spring | Master Gardener | Lifestyles https://www.allforgardening.com/1672239/aphids-spring-to-life-in-spring-master-gardener-lifestyles/ #agriculture #ant... #aphid #BiologicalPestControl #coccinellidae #garden #gardener #gardening #Honeydew(secretion) #hoverfly #insect #insecticide #insects #InsectsAndHumans #Kingdoms(biology) #leaf #organisms #plant #plants #SootyMold

mein #BugOfTheDay ist heute eine schwebfliege namens

Xanthogramma laetum
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwebfliegen
mai '25

diese familie unter den zweiflüglern ist so artenreich, dass es für unsere hier nicht zu einem eigenen deutschen namen oder wiki-artikel gereicht hat 🤷

#DailyBug #insekten #insects #diptera #hoverfly #krabbeltierchen #nature #biodiversity #entomology

New Study Uncovers [Another Positive] Surprising Effect[s] Of Beavers' Dam-Building Behavior
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/study-uncovers-surprising-effect-beavers-193000239.html <-- shared technical / media article
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https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70136 <-- shared paper
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/beavers-are-dam-good-for-biodiversity-bringing-bats-butterflies-and-other-critters-to-their-neighborhoods-180987717/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70193 <-- shared paper
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#water #surfacewater #groundwater #hydrology #natural #beaver #wildlife #habitat #ecosystem #streamflow #beaverdams #geomorphology #montane #landscape #landforms #basin #watershed #drainage #spatial #reservoir #biodiversity #bat #butterfly #pollinators #pollination #insects #arthropods #food #feeding #predation #trees #vegetation #switzerland #night #day #nightandday #sampling #remotesensing #diversity #deadwood #spatialanalysis #LiDAR #ecology #aquatic #terrestrial #ecosystemengineering #model #modeling #structuralequationmodel #SEM #species #foodsecurity #biology #wetland #butterfly #bee #hoverfly #moth

Episyrphus balteatus
@Nature
#EpisyrphusBalteatus #MarmaladeHoverfly #Hoverfly #Hoverflies #InsectPhotography #InsectsOfInstagram #Pollinators #GardenInsects #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #MacroPhotography #MacroPerfection #CloseUpShot #InsectMacro #NatureMacro #Biodiversity

Bugs and Blooms

Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30

#photography #photographer #insect #hoverfly #fly #flowers #leaves #sunshine #macrophotography #cumbria #summer #greenbottlefly #luciliasericata #insectphotography #ragwort #insectworld

Hoverflies and Green Bottle Fly

Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30

#photography #photographer #insect #hoverfly #fly #flowers #leaves #sunshine #macrophotography #cumbria #summer #greenbottlefly #luciliasericata #insectphotography #ragwort #insectworld

Hoverflies on Small Teasel - Hornet Hoverfly, Lesser Hornet Hoverfly & Rhingia rostrata. All rare 20 years ago, probably spreading due to #climatechange
#Bath #Somerset #UK
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #insect #entomology #hoverfly #syrphidae #fly

Hornet Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria) female on a bramble flower at Bath City Farm, #Bath #Somerset #UK.

This harmless Hornet mimic has expanded its range over the past few decades, and a study has strongly linked this expansion to #climatechange.

#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #twerton #bathcityfarm #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #pollinator #ukhoverflies #hoverfly #hoverflies #diptera #mimicry #climatechange

Some kind of drone fly I'd guess, taking a break from the wind.

#NativePollinators #insects #DroneFly #hoverfly #pollinators #bees #NotaBee

The honeysuckle is starting to bloom more giving the local insects a chance to feed #honeysuckle #japanesehoneysuckle #hoverfly #marmaladehoverfly #iphonephotography

Part 2 of today's #walk on the #SouthDowns

1) Pied Hoverfly (Scaeva pyrastri)
2) Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
3) Four-lined Horsefly (Atylotus rusticus)
4) Mothman (Pulcher maximus 😉)

#hoverfly #horsefly #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #entomology #insect #summer #conservation #biodiversity #alttext #walking #rambling #countryside

Meliscaeva sp.

#Hoverfly #Diptera #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Insect #Insects #InsectPhotography #Fly #Flies #Hoverflies #Syrphidae #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

Very excited and delighted for new paper by my #UoN colleague Tom Reader, exploring the mechanisms behind Batesian mimicry using 3D printed insects: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09216-3. There's a N&V, a podcast and a blog to accompany it!
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01766-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02103-x
https://communities.springernature.com/posts/how-3d-printed-insects-curious-birds-and-clever-spiders-helped-us-map-the-limits-of-mimicry. And then this also just published:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02775-8 #mimicry #batesian #hoverfly #wasp

The #marmalade #hoverfly, #Episyrphus #balteatus (#Syrphidae), is a common #species in #CentralEurope. It either #hibernates here as adult or #migrates toward #SouthernEurope, crossing the Alps. Its #migratorybehavior resembles that of other migratory animals.
X. Chang et al. (2024) investigated #endosymbiontic #microbiota dynamics in the syrphid's developmental stages.

© #StefanFWirth Berlin June 2025

Ref

X. Chang et al. (2024)
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1308393

#Photos
© S.F. Wirth, Bln 2025

Day 5 of #30DaysWild

The Giant Bolivian #Achocha seedlings are getting their true leaves.

When (if) they flower, there will be a good food source for #pollinators , especially #hoverfly species.

*edit @Spaceways Suggested a Yellow-haired Sun Fly, Myathropa florea, the Batman hoverfly, and they have been identified in the region, and it really looks like one.
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Some kind of drone fly I guess. Seems more yellow than most of the photos of the 'Common' one. It's on a chokecherry blossom.

#NativePollinators #insects #hoverfly #DroneFly #pollinators #bees #NotaBee #chokecherry #BloomScrollingWithInsect #BloomScrollingWithBee

Another Syrphus ribesii hoverfly. This one seemed a little smaller but I think it's the same. Could be female vs male differences.

#hoverfly #SyrphusRibesii #insects #NativePollinators #pollinators

Syrphus ribesii hoverfly enjoying the sun on the black currant.

#hoverfly #SyrphusRibesii #insects #NativePollinators #pollinators

A Syrphus hoverfly on a rudbeckia flower.

#hoverfly #rudbeckia #YellowFlowers #bees #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #NativeBee #NativePollinators #pollinators #insects #wildlife #nature #FlowerWithInsect #MastodonOnly #CCBYNCND

Mornin’.

You know when you park in a completely empty parking lot and you return to find the only other car in the lot has parked not only right beside you but so close you can’t get back in to your own car…

“Hey, hey, you, you, get off of my flower…”

#bumblebee #hoverfly #phacelia

I wish I knew what was going on between the paperWasp and the hoverFly-like wasp. The paperWasp (on the right) seemed to be guarding the okra flower bud while the other wasp seemed to be bothering.

[edit: originally I assumed the other wasp to be a hoverFly.]

#BugsAreCool #paperWasp #hoverFly #GardenPlot14

Syrphid fly larva draining an oleander aphid (Aphis nerii). The fluid on the aphid's right cornicle is defensive (didn't work) but also contains an alarm pheromone. #aphid #syrphidae #fly #hoverfly #diptera #syrphidfly #insect #entomology #macro #macrophotography

Syrphus ribesii hoverfly decided to land on my finger when I was going to try to take a picture of bees on the clove currant.

I one handed took photos and focus on the hoverfly with the phone, which somehow made the phone start taking photos as fast as it could, which I got stopped after about 120 photos, and I of course kept the camera aimed towards the currant bush while not disturbing the hoverfly because that was important apparently.

#NativePollinators #hoverfly #NativeInsects

Cosmos ~
every time I go into the garden, there's a hover fly on the cosmos
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#HoverFly #Pollinator #Insect #CaughtInAction #ActionShot #CosmosFlower #Cosmos #InMyGarden #InMyGardenToday #BloomScrolling #Nature #Freshness #Flower #FocusOnForeground #Macro #MacroPhotography #Pollen #White #Outdoors #Growth #Plant #CloseUp #Inflorescence

Eine Schwebefliege - Leider immer seltener zu sehen!

#DietmarSchneider #Fotogalerie #Foto #Photography #Fotografie #Photo #Animals #Fliegen #Fly #SchwebeFliege #HoverFly #Stehfliege #Schwirrfliege #Insekten #Insects #Wildlife #Berlin #Schlossparkgezwitscher #Naturephotography #Naturfotografie #Digitour

Nice to do a bit of macro today. #hoverfly #insect #macro #closeup #nature #wildlife #naturelovers #wildlifelovers #cornwall #gwithian #reserve #godox #photography

Nice to do a bit of macro today. #hoverfly #insect #macro #closeup #nature #wildlife #naturelovers #wildlifelovers #cornwall #gwithian #reserve #godox #photography

Nice to do a bit of macro today. #hoverfly #insect #macro #closeup #nature #wildlife #naturelovers #wildlifelovers #cornwall #gwithian #reserve #godox #photography

Nice to do a bit of macro today. #hoverfly #insect #macro #closeup #nature #wildlife #naturelovers #wildlifelovers #cornwall #gwithian #reserve #godox #photography

Nice to do a bit of macro today. #hoverfly #insect #macro #closeup #nature #wildlife #naturelovers #wildlifelovers #cornwall #gwithian #reserve #godox #photography

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

I was trying to get a good shot of Burgan blossom (Kunzea) when this Hover Fly landed - and pretended to be a native bee.
#Photography #Wildflower #Macro #HoverFly #Burgan #Kunzea #StreetsOfMelbourne #Belgrave #FlowersOfMastodon

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

18 years ago, I took this pic of a #hoverfly snogging some #aphids -

https://flic.kr/p/intE2

I often wonder how that #polycule is going.

#Photograpy #Nature #Macro #Canon10D #MPE65mm #f2point8