The Hoverfly Thread (3 Viewers)

Matt Prince

Sharkbait

• Aug 10, 2011

• #461

Bonsaibirder said:

Thanks Matt :t:

Any idea why the large influx?

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Hi,

They are often the commonest hoverfly, but a huge increase in numbers suggests mass migration - a known phenomenon with this species.

Cheers,
Matt

 

Bonsaibirder

http://mobro.co/saddinall

• Aug 20, 2011

• #462

Matt Prince said:

Hi,

They are often the commonest hoverfly, but a huge increase in numbers suggests mass migration - a known phenomenon with this species.

Cheers,
Matt

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Thanks Matt.

 

Captain_of_Crunch

YVdpep_re64

• Aug 26, 2011

• #463

Hi,

I found this hoverfly on the Irish east coast last weekend. Would appreciate any help in ID'ing it.

Thanks!

 

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aeshna5

Well-known member

• Aug 27, 2011

• #464

Scaeva pyastri

 

Captain_of_Crunch

YVdpep_re64

• Aug 27, 2011

• #465

aeshna5 said:

Scaeva pyastri

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Thanks!

 

tom tams

Well-known member

• Feb 21, 2012

• #466

Hi All

Can anyone put an id to this hoverfly sp, photographed today in Tynemouth, Northumberland

 

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Davebutterflyman

Well-known member

• Feb 21, 2012

• #467

Eristalis sp?

 

tom tams

Well-known member

• Feb 23, 2012

• #468

Davebutterflyman said:

Eristalis sp?

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Hi Dave

Thanks for your reply. I also sent the images off to others and I have now had it confirmed. It is Eristalis tenax – the bands of dark hairs running vertically up the eyes are clearly visible

Best

Tom

 

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godrevy

Active member

• Mar 2, 2012

• #469

Hi,

Just started photographing insects and would appreciate I.D. of the attached. I've been told it is a hoverfly but I'm not sure.

 

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aeshna5

Well-known member

• Mar 2, 2012

• #470

godrevy said:

Hi,

Just started photographing insects and would appreciate I.D. of the attached. I've been told it is a hoverfly but I'm not sure.

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

 

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godrevy

Active member

• Mar 3, 2012

• #471

Many thanks, Aesthna5. The books I have weren't much help. Nice to be able to identify it, at last.

 

GiG

Well-known member

• Mar 4, 2012

• #472

On the 1st, the warm day brought out some insects and on some flowering blackthorn I saw my first red admiral of the year, two buff-tailed bumble bees and this hoverfly which I think is Eristalis tenax.

Gi

 

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Captain_of_Crunch

YVdpep_re64

• Apr 10, 2012

• #473

Is this Mallota cimbiciformis by any chance? Photographed in eastern Ireland this morning.

 

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woodwolf

Well-known member

• Apr 29, 2012

• #474

Hi
I'm struggling with this, quite distinctive markings , was thinking Tenax, pertinax or had elegans suggested.. can anyone help ?

 

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aeshna5

Well-known member

• Apr 30, 2012

• #475

woodwolf said:

Hi
I'm struggling with this, quite distinctive markings , was thinking Tenax, pertinax or had elegans suggested.. can anyone help ?

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Epistrophe eligans.

 

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woodwolf

Well-known member

• Apr 30, 2012

• #476

aeshna5 said:

Epistrophe eligans.

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Cheers:t:

 

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minkstone

Well-known member

• Jul 6, 2012

• #477

Photographed this hover fly yesterday, is it dasysyrphus albostriatus.

Stu

 

chris butterworth

aka The Person Named Above

• Jul 9, 2012

• #478

Another 'thingie' I photographed while "just rummaging around". Any ideas?

Chris

 

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aeshna5

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• Jul 10, 2012

• #479

chris butterworth said:

Another 'thingie' I photographed while "just rummaging around". Any ideas?

Chris

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Maybe Eupeodes corollae

 

antshrike69

Well-known member

• Jul 13, 2012

• #480

At Kelling Quag yesterday, I found a stonking Volucella zonaria on hogweed - an absolutely massive beast and extremely convincing as a hornet mimic. It was the day's highlight.