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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Still say E. pertinax with orangey front tarsi (dark in E. tenax) & lacks broad dark facial stripe of latter.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    I'd go more for E. pertinax.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Syritta pipiens.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Doesn't look like Parasyrphus to me. Maybe Melangyna lasiophthalma?
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Looks like Volucella zonaria-our largest species.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Looks like Eristalis tenax to me Pudsey.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    One of the droneflies John & with that distinctive wing cloud, must be Eristalis horticola.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    1 is Eristalis, I think E. arbustorum. The others a bee-Honey Bee by looks of last 2 images.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    No- the dark stigma is a clue. It's Dasysyrphus albostriatus, I believe.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Surely your photo shows it with 2 pairs of wings which eliminates any true fly. Looks like a Honey Bee to me.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    I thought it may be that species but not sure what species are in Crete.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Looks like a tachinid to me.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    It's one of the smaller Eristalis species.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Maybe Eupeodes corollae
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Epistrophe eligans.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    It is a hoverfly; one of the drone-flies, Eristalis sp. I think E. tenax.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Scaeva pyastri
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Sphaerophoria sp.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    That would be my ID of it Andrew.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    The hoverfly looks to be a Eupeodes sp to me + the horse fly a Tabanus sp.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Agree with first 2; always find some of the Eristalis tricky!
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    That is indeed V.zonaria. The only confusion species would be the smaller V. inanis which lacks the chestnut or indeed Hornet itself, though the behaviour is very different.
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    Agree with those two Gavia!
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    All look good to me!
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    The Hoverfly Thread

    All Episyrphus balteatus.
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