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"Skerries Wild Bee Festival" North County Dublin today allowed me completely nerd-out on #pollinators up close! 🔍 Gorgeous location of the old Skerries Mills 🌻🍃🌻 #solitarybees #hoverflies #mimics #nativeflowers #nature #speirgorm #summersolstice #ireland

21/06/2025 - Both of us were so sleepy today. We headed for the walled garden at Castle Fraser for an afternoon of sitting and watching the bees and hoverflies. Another warm day in the shire. It was a good visit.

#DayOut #Bees #HoverFlies #Insects #BloomScrolling

Photo is of the lovely walled garden at Castle Fraser where we spent 4 hrs today just enjoying doing not much. I'm holding a Buchanan's Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cream. It's about to get eat! I love these. Bit melty on a warm day though.

Patchwork leaf-cutter bee sitting on a big yellow flower. This one has a bright orange pollen brush underside of abdomen. Top bee this one.

Pied Hoverfly on a plant. Three pairs of white comma marks on abdomen.

A lovely big patch of some sort of purple geranium.

Oblique Streaktail (Allograpta obliqua) hoverflies lay their eggs near aphid colonies on leaves or branches. When the larvae hatch, they feed on the aphids.

#hoverflies #insects #wildlife #nature #california

Onderaan het blad een snorzweefvlieg (Episyrphus balteatus ♂️ ), en bovenaan het omhulsel van de pop waaruit de vlieg net kwam.
Zulke poppen, die lijken op druppels, kan je vinden op planten met bladluizen. Snorzweefvliegen leggen hun eitjes immers in de buurt van bladluizen omdat hun larven bladluizen eten.
#zweefvliegen #hoverflies #insecten #insects #insectodon

A hoverfly and its empty pupal case on a green leaf.

Persian onion (Allium cristophii) with Syrphid fly.

#onions #onionflowers #allium #hoverflies #syrphids

The sharp, pink petals of a flowering onion with a small yellow and black pollinating fly resting on them.

Some of today's bugs - a rather feisty sawfly (Tenthredo mesomela?) on nettles, a common drone fly (Eristalis tenax) on a bramble flower, another Rutpela maculata beetle, this time scaling the rhododendrons - and a tiny little longhorn beetle (Grammoptera ruficornis?).

(These are edited highlights from perhaps 20 minutes with my camera!)

#beetles #sawflies #hoverflies #insects #macrophotography #Derbyshire

Shiny, sleek black and apple-green sawfly with folded wings on a spiky-edged nettle leaf.

A rather round and fuzzy hoverfly, looking somewhere between a honey bee and a bumble bee, timidly sipping at the centre of a white-pink bramble flower.

Stripy black and yellow beetle intrepidly scaling a large pink petal of a rhododendron flower, ready to sample the nectar within.

Dainty little brown longhorn beetle on a pink-white bramble petal.

Another welcome visitor on my aphid-infested fava beans, a syrphid fly larva (or pre-pupa). Might take it home and rear it to adulthood so I can get an ID. I love having my desk covered in vials of mystery critters. #SyrphidFlies #HoverFlies #FlowerFlies #aphids #syrphidae #diptera

Long, mottled-green, slug-like larva with two small knobs protruding from one end.

Grass skimmer (#Paragus cf. bicolor)

#photography #photo #nature #naturephotography #mft #microfourthirds #darktable #macrophotography #macro #animals #wildlife #insects #syrphidae #schwebfliegen #hoverflies #GrassSkimmer

A red and black insect facing down on a blade of grass

This very fluffy yellow hoverfly looks like a newly hatched chick. It is Myathropea florea.

A group of them were chasing around in the sunshine and returning to the same group of leaves.

#insects #hoverflies

A hoverfly stands sideways on a leaf. It has rather long fur, in bands of yellow and brown, looking rather dishevelled

Over zweefvliegen gesproken: gisteren de 28ste zweefvliegensoort in de tuin gezien.🙂 Je kan gemakkelijk zien dat het een vrouwelijk exemplaar is doordat de ogen nogal ver uit elkaar staan. #insecten #insects #hoverflies #insectodon

⬇️ gele halvemaanzweefvlieg (Scaeva selenitica) ♀️

Black hoverfly with yellow stripes sitting on a piece of wood: side view.

Black hoverfly with yellow stripes sitting on a piece of wood: front view.

#BlühStreifen um Obstgärten herum, erhöhen den Ertrag an Früchten und sind natürlich gut für die #Artenvielfalt
#Flower strips could save #apple farmers pest control costs
Flower strips create a home for a team of helpful #insects – like #ladybirds, #hoverflies, and #lacewings – that eat harmful pests such as aphids. This natural team of pest controllers helps keep apple trees healthy with less need for chemical sprays.

https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Research-News/lower-strips-could-save-apple-farmers-pest-control-costs

07/05/2025 - Things we saw on our evening walk after work. Round and over the hill. A lovely small copper butterfly and the wonderful footballer hoverfly

#EveningWalk #Hoverflies #Butterflies #Insects

Photo of a small copper butterfly on a dandelion. It's a small mainly orange butterfly. We don't see that many round here. Made my day.

The footballer hoverfly on a rock. It's called that because of the black and yellow stripes on the thorax, bit like a football top.

Landed on my laptop. Light conditions were such I could take photos with focus stacking. Working from Pembroke's gardens is a wonderful experience.

Syritta pipiens, a hoverfly.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/279277541
#iNaturalist #Diptera #hoverflies #entomology #Pembroke1347

Excited about our new #InnovateUK project, FLYTHRIVE, with Olombria, NRI, Asplins and Summerberry Company. Hoverflies are amazing: dual-purpose beneficial insects! They are good little #pollinators, and many species also help control aphids! The larvae of the aphid-eating #hoverflies are voracious little predators that will eat up to a few dozen aphids per day.

As UK #fruit growers are seeing more and more #pesticide products withdrawn from approval, they are getting much more interested in biological control methods to manage pests - such as predatory insects.

So the FLYTHRIVE project is all about developing a hoverfly-based system (supported by machine vision and odour lures) to give safe and efficient aphid control on soft fruit.

https://hortnews.com/flythrive-uses-ai-to-drive-natural-defences-and-deliver-value-to-growers/

#IPM #PestManagement #Syrphidae #SoftFruit #Horticulture #FoodSystems #AgriTech

Excited about our new project, FLYTHRIVE, with Olombria, NRI, Asplins and Summerberry Company. Hoverflies are amazing: dual-purpose beneficial insects! They are good little #pollinators, and many species also help control aphids! The larvae of the aphid-eating #hoverflies are voracious little predators that will eat up to a few dozen aphids per day.

https://hortnews.com/flythrive-uses-ai-to-drive-natural-defences-and-deliver-value-to-growers/

#PestManagement #IPM #Horticulture

Hovering this cleanser between the timelines 😉
Have a peaceful night and sweet dreams 🩷

#TimelineCleanser #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #plantphotography #gardenLife #GardenPlants #hoverflies #Insects #pollinators #Bloomscrolling

Hoverfly hovering in front of a pink and white rose on a black background

A Tapered Drone Fly (Eristalis pertinax).

The ivy was rather crowded!

#insects #hoverflies

A robust bee-like hoverfly with short chestnut brown fur jacket, with body mostly black but with fawn highlights

And in this moment, the wings seem to shimmer like a rainbow

#pollinators #HoverFlies

A macro of a hoverfly in flight above peach tree flowers. The hoverfly has back to camera. Its wings reflecting sunlight. The dark hoverfly has large eyes, short antennae, and gold horizontal and vertical bands on its back. Pink flowers blurred in background.

Last week, the hoverflies began to visit the peach tree. Today, one let me hover with it for a while. The wings are transparent, so you can notice the anther pads below it

#pollinators #HoverFlies

A macro of a hoverfly hovering above a peach flower. Its back is to the camera, showing off the gold calligraphy pattern on its dark body. The wings are outstretched and look like a fine ink sketch. Below the wings are some of the many stamens topped with yellow anthers

I drew a hoverfly! 🪰✨

#insects #hoverflies

#HoverFlies

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