The distinctive yellow band on this hoverfly in the garden caught my eye. Apparently common but new to me. Dasysyrphus tricinctus, aka yellow-girdled brusheye.
The distinctive yellow band on this hoverfly in the garden caught my eye. Apparently common but new to me. Dasysyrphus tricinctus, aka yellow-girdled brusheye.
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.
Insect ID Help please
I came across this giant hoverfly yesterday on a walk. I've never seen one before and it's maybe an inch (2.5cm) big.
I have tried to find out which it is but to no avail. We're NW Scotland if that helps
Edit: I can share higher quality images if required, they're heavily compressed to save bandwidth
#Hoverfly #Hoverflies #Insect #iRecord #Diptera
A Sedge Sitter hoverfly getting stuck into the nectar in a Greater Stitchwort flower. (flower: Rabelera holostea, the fly is a Platycheirus species)
#PlantADay #Botany #Nature #Plant #Wildflower #BloomScrolling #Hoverfly #Fly #Insect
Hoverfly
This teasel is a hoverfly service station
Pale Saddled Leucozona (Leucozona glaucia) at Brown's Folly near #Bath #Somerset #UK.
There has recently been a north-west shift in its range, probably due to #climatechange.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #hoverfly #ukwildlife #bathsomerset #bathuk #bathnature
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 )
Hover Flies that look like bees
Insects at Rest
Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30
A hoverfly rests on the seed pod of a poppy flower in Dunsden, UK
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock
Meliscaeva sp.
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
Good Morning!
Ageratum with a hoverfly. #BloomScrolling #ageratum #hoverfly #GoodMorning
A very popular Poppy
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
Rhingia campestris Meigen, 1822
Published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2rdprD8