Macro photograph of a maize calligrapher hoverfly on a blade of grass

Hoverfly in the grass. A pleasant surprise to find this wandering the back yard -

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From above, a tiny black and gold fly sits on a green leaf, with decorative black stripes and symbols on its abdomen, iridescent clear wings and rusty red eyes, with a metallic gold thorax.

Love the iridescent rainbow colors in the wing of this beautiful decorated first-of-the-season Eastern Calligrapher (Toxomerus geminatus), a common hover fly in East TN.

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