Thursday, 19 August 2021

Photos of Hoverflies

 Crafty Green Boyfriend took some amazing photos of hoverflies in Spylaw Park the other day, here are just a selection of them! 

 Three Epistrophe grossulariae.

Marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)

 

 long hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta).

 Sunfly aka Footballer hoverfly (Helophilus pendulus).
Syrphus sp.


3 comments:

David said...

Good photos. The experts will tell you that you cannot take Sphaerophoria females to species level based on photos. Most males seem to be S scripta just now, so it is likely that the photo is of that species.

Gershon Ben-Avraham said...

Wow! These are amazing photos.

Rambling Woods said...

My grandson is fascinated with hoverflies....Michelle