Today there seemed to be a lot of small hover flies buzzing around the flowers, so I decided to try to get a shot of one of them. As their name suggests, these flies spend much of their time hovering, but fortunately they land sometimes, which gave me a chance to get an image of a hover fly.
Hover flies, which are also known as flower flies and syrphid flies, are part of the insect family Syrphidae. There are quite a few different species of hover flies and I find it difficult to tell them apart, so I’ll merely identify this one as a hover fly.
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and see I would have thought it was some kid of bee. The things I learn here! 🙂
What a beautiful and stunning photo, the detail you captured is amazing.
Some hover flies can be really beautiful, but you often need a macro lens to find that out.
There is a lot of beauty that can be discovered only when you move in close, whether it be with insects or with plants. That’s of the reasons why I enjoy your photos so much. You help us to focus on the little flowers and plants that we routinely do not see or somehow ignore.