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The Hoverfly Thread (2 Viewers)

I thought I would add this Sphaerophoria scripta hoverfly, could not see one when I searched, image from the top view. From Orton Brick Pits Cambs
 

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I've posted this request on the main board too, but although it's getting views it's not getting responses, so I'm casting the net a bit further.


Are these Narcissus flies? They were feeding in a coniferous forest in inland Northumberland today


1. Arctophila fulva (superabiens as now called). Great find, never seen one despite looking for 25years!
 
Thanks John.

It was a complete accident. I'd been photographing a bee a minute or two earlier and it moved off. I thought I was photographing the same thing when I took this, and it wasn't until I got the photos downloaded onto the computer that I realised I had three shots of a bee, (I think it's a tawny mining bee)but the insect in the fourth photo had the face of a fly.

Thanks for your help. Neither of the two hoverflies you identified are in my book (Collins British Insects).
 

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I think it must be another Scaeva pyrastri although its not as immediately obvious as most examples of this species - for some reason I can't explain.
 
Thanks, John. I'm pretty sure that it was appreciably smaller than the one you called S pyrastri before but I'm not 100%.
But grateful for all your help.
Ken
 
I've been out today looking for Arctophila in upland pine plantation in S.Yorks - no luck, as usual, but I did see Eriozona syrphoides.

I don't know if you make it up into these parts John, but I found that one in the Harwood forest, on a public path just north of Harwood village, at a point 55°12'46"N, 2°00'06"W (OS Co-ords NZ000910).



http://www.multimap.com/s/kvAS9qgA



Park in the layby just south of the village (no parking in the village) and walk north through the village and up the main track through the forest.
 
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Hi.

Can anybody id this hoverfly for me taken today in the garden.Any help would be really appreciated.

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Dave.
 
Thanks very much Brian.I'm finding photography of hoverflies a fascinating subject and as i'm fairly new to this group it's quite a challenge when it comes to identifying them and looking back on my records i now recognise the above but missed it somehow when browsing through my images.Many thanks again Brian for the id.

Dave.
 
Big Hoverfly

Hello, just thought i would post this photo that i took down near Exmouth, Devon whilst out on a walk along the Coast Path.
I have never seen a hoverfly so big, nearly an inch long ! I have been told it is called '' Volucella Zonaria '' - Britains Largest Hoverfly.
 

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