Black-and-white photograph of a male ‘Batman’ hoverfly on a Field maple leaf.
Batman returns. First Myathropa florea hoverfly of the year for me, in Ely today. #Diptera #Hoverflies
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A disoriented but beautiful wasp, Yellowjacket I think, trying to warm up on our dark ice melter mats in the cool shady part of the yard in the morning.
Warm sunny #pollinators party yesterday. Saw brown #butterfly but winged off before ID—probably always early Red Admiral since they feed on more than just blooms. Plus giant bumble queens, other native #bees, honeybee scouts, #flies, #wasps & #hoverflies. #gardening #InsectThursday #invertebrates 🌱
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Blackthorn Boxer (Platycheirus ambiguus)
🦟New Hoverfly Spotted🦟
Blackthorn Boxer (Platycheirus ambiguus) found hovering around a Blackthorn bush.
Have you spotted one this spring?
#hoverflies #flies #Insects #pollinator #nature #syrphidae #entomology #entomologist #naturalhistory
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A Hoverfly with a brassy coloured thorax and dark abdomen, with minimal yellow markings.
Male Epistrophe eligans on a Bramble leaf, a dark individual with minimal yellow markings. #WildWebsWednesday #Diptera #Hoverflies
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A yellow-and-black banded Hoverfly on white blossom.
Male Syrphus hoverfly resting on Cherry blossom. #WildWebsWednesday #Diptera #Hoverflies
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A close up photo of a very teeny spider. It’s got a deep brown head and legs and a black abdomen. It is sitting on its web, which was on the ground, attached to some leaves. Agelena labyrinthica - labyrinth spider
A photograph of a white butterfly on cuckoo flower. The spider is mostly white, with some grey tips on the wings and green and yellow mottling on the underwings. This is a female Orange tip butterfly. She is nectaring on a cuckoo flower. This is a dainty pinky flower and the orange tip caterpillar’s food plant. Anthocharis cardamines (orange tip) Cardamine pratensis (cuckoo flower)
A photograph of a comma butterfly on some cow parsley. This is a vibrant orange butterfly with some darker bordering and dots on its wings. It is resting on a cow parsley leaf, surrounded by more cow parsley, dandelions and lesser celandine. Polygonia c album
And a few more: an immature labyrinth spider, a female Orange tip butterfly and a comma
London, 6 April
Info etc in alt
#Invertebrates #MacroPhotography #Butterflies #Diptera #Arachids #Spiders #Hoverflies #Lepidoptera
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Two hoverflies sharing an interest in Goldilocks: Maybe Melanostoma scalare & Syrphus ribesii in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social yesterday. 🤔
#Hoverflies #Flies #Diptera
#WildWebsWednesday
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A couple of hoverflies close to home this afternoon - Epistrophe eligans and what could be Meligramma trianguliferum? (or a dark Meliscaeva auricollis)... #Hoverflies
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A macro photograph of a hoverfly on grass. It looks as if it is looking up at the camera with his big eyes. He’s a long hoverfly, but not particularly big. The front of his face is light yellow, then there are two huge eyes. His thorax is bronze with faint darker stripes and yellow on the sides. His body is black with pairs of yellow dots. His wings are spread out to the sides, clear but with some iridescence.
Great to see these guys coming out again. I saw four hanging out on some dandelion today
Sphaephoria scripta (male) - hoverfly
London
#MacroMonday #Invertebrates #MacroPhotography #Hoverflies
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A large hoverfly with distinctive banding on the abdomen as well as beautiful thin yellow bands on the shiny black thorax.
A close up of the head, showing the pattern of ommatidia on the eyes, as well as the three simple ocelli at the top of the head.
Helophilus pendulus (the Common Stripeback).
Using my new Guide to the Flies of Britain and Ireland I set out on a back garden safari.
What a beauty! Typical that when I look it up it’s described as ‘Common’.
Canon 90D Laowa 100mm macro Godox v350C
#hoverflies
#Syrphids
#diptera
#macrophotography
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📚 Hoverflies in Historical Books P1 🔍
Join me to discover more as I leaf through dusty shelves in search of hidden wonders.👇
#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Syrphidae #Booksky #ArtHistory #NatureIllustration #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #HistSci #Scicomm #Naturewriting
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social
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A photograph of two seven spot ladybirds, well, making more seven spot ladybirds. These are fairly large ladybirds with red bodies with black spots and two white spots by the thorax. A black head and thorax with a few white spots. Very pretty ladybirds and loads here. We counted to 35 and gave up. Coccinella septempunctata.
A photograph of a bee. It is sunning itself on cow parsley. It’s gots a fuzzy, orangish thorax with a black with white stripes abdomen. It’s an Andrena species, possibly Andrena nitida.
A photograph of another Andrena sp bee. Not sure which one. There were quite a few of these very little bees buzzing about. Its thorax is deep brown and bare with some yellow hairs on the side. Its abdomen is also brown, with white stripes. It’s also sunning itself on some cow parsley.
A photograph of an absolute stunner of a hoverfly. This is a rather chonky beast, with a bronze-brown thorax and a yellow and black striped abdomen. It is outlined with small golden hairs, which makes it glitter in the sun. Very blingy. It is sunning itself on a cow parsley leaf (those plants were very very popular!) Epistrophe eligans.
Some invertebrates from this week - so great to see more coming out of their slumber 😍
Using the TG-7 and still learning. But a great little camera to take out when I can’t be bothered with the ‘proper’ camera
IDs & descriptions in alt.
#Invertebrates #LondonWildlife #Ladybirds #Bees #Hoverflies
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Springtime in the garden
#hyacinth #grapehyacinth #marshmarigold #pond #dandelion #hoverflies #naturephotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography
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Female Eupeodes luniger hoverfly in flight, heading towards a lime green Euphorbia flower.
Female Eupeodes luniger hoverfly in the garden yesterday. 📷 #photography #Diptera #Hoverflies
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A Hoverfly on a bright green Euphorbia flower, against a blurred green background.
Eupeodes luniger hoverfly in the garden today. 📷 #photography #Diptera #Hoverflies
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Female Hoverfly
Male Hoverfly
♂ Male or Female ♀
For most species of hoverflies, the males have larger eyes that meet in the middle (holoptic) whereas for females there is a gap (dioptic) this can be used out in the field for sexing – see below.
#HoverflyFact #Hoverflies
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Side view of a brassy coloured Hoverfly on a green leaf edged with red.
Male Epistrophe eligans hoverfly on a Bramble leaf in Ely last weekend. #WildWebsWednesday #Hoverflies #Diptera
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https://hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com/2026/03/spring-smoothtail-epistrophe-eligans.html
🦟 Spring Smoothtail 🔍
Yesterday I published an article about spotting the Spring Smoothtail hoverfly in April, and then, on my daily walk, there it was—freshly emerged and soaking up the sunshine a day early.
#Hoverflies #Syrphidae #Flies #Insects #Entomology #Pollinators #Nature #NatureWalk
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🦟 Bush full of Flies & Didymodons 🌱
Welcome to the spring everyone🌸 🌼 🌷🌱🦋 🌞
Sightings part 2 - #flies, #hoverflies, #birds, #butterflies, #ladybirds, mosses & more...
Let me know what you have spotted.
#Insects #Moss #Bees #NaturalHistory #Bugs #NatureWriting
#SpringSightings
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A shiny brassy coloured Hoverfly on a green Bramble leaf with red edging.
So shiny and new. Male Epistrophe eligans hoverfly in Ely today. #Hoverflies #Diptera 📷 #photography
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A white-tailed form of Criorhina ranunculi (Large Bearfly) briefly resting on a Cherry Laurel leaf.
A white-tailed form of Criorhina ranunculi (Large Bearfly) briefly resting on a Cherry Laurel leaf.
A white-tailed form of Criorhina ranunculi (Large Bearfly) briefly resting on a Cherry Laurel leaf, and having a bit of a wash.
A white-tailed form of Criorhina ranunculi (Large Bearfly) briefly resting between visits to Cherry Laurel flowers.
A bumblebee mimic hoverfly.
Cann Wood, near Plymouth, last week.
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#Hoverflies #UKWildlife
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A male Portevinia maculata (Ramsons Hoverfly) on a Wild Garlic leaf.
A male Portevinia maculata (Ramsons Hoverfly) on a Wild Garlic leaf.
Portevinia maculata (Ramsons Hoverfly).
Normally see these in May, but there were a couple of males on Wild Garlic in Plymbridge Woods, near Plymouth, last week.
www.flickr.com/photos/63075...
#Hoverflies #UKWildlife
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Hoverflies with wings loops
Hoverfly Wing Loops
#HoverflyFact #Hoverflies
Several hoverflies have a loop in their wing veins.
Common (Eristalis tenax) & Tapered Dronefly (E.pertinax) are just two on the wing at present.
Anyone seen any over the last few days?
I saw quite a few of the Tapered on my walk today.
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Sphaerophoria scripta one of only three insects seen on a two mile wander with hedgerows full of may blossom .Oil beetle and red tailed bumble bee were the other two . #hoverflies
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A black Hoverfly with pale yellow markings hovering near Blackthorn blossom, against a blurred green background.
Female Scaeva selenitica in Ely today. #Diptera #Hoverflies 📷 #photography
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Montage of Cheilosia variabilis, Platycheirus ambiguus (probably), Parasyrphus punctulatus, Helophilus pendulus and an Eristalis sp.
More new hoverflies for 2026 in the Brent River Park in Ealing today.
#hoverflies
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Montage showing a Hoverfly in flight and resting on a hand.
We’re back in business. Male Eristalis pertinax today. 💚 #Hoverflies #Diptera
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📚 New Super Flies Guide 🔍 – Just out
Had a look inside and these are my first impressions. 👇
Its superb, let me know what you think, leave a comment below.
Now its time to go use it.....
#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Pollinators #Syrphidae #Diptera #Entomology #NaturalHistory #Books #NatureWriting
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A drone fly and a couple of bees enjoying the blossom
#WildWebsWednesday from yesterday on my car park blackthorn! Top is a drone fly, bottom very busy, and successful #bees looking at their pollen sacks! #Lancashire #pollinators #hoverflies #vitaminN
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A small Hoverfly on a white Cherry plum blossom.
Cherry plum with bonus Meliscaeva auricollis hoverfly in Ely yesterday. 💚 #WhiteFlowers #WildflowerHour #Hoverflies #Diptera
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