Bonus #FlyDay
This round is an Eastern Calligrapher (Toxomerus geminatus) taken a couple hours ago in my front yard. The flower must have had good nectar because the fly didn't seem bothered by me at all. I think it may have been laying eggs on the same plant but I couldn't find them after fetching my camera. The stems of the flowers were covered in aphids. A delicacy to these #Syrphids.

#Diptera #Nature #Macro

🐝🪰 Catarina Siopa, Sara Lopes and Sílvia Castro participated in the 2nd intermediate level course on sample processing and taxonomic identification of bees and hoverflies, at CREAF in Barcelona, ​​within the scope of the European project SPRING "Strengthening Pollinator Recovery through Indicators and monitoring".

#butterflies #wildbees #syrphids #flowerflies #SPRINGProject #polliNET #EuPoMS #EuPollinators #SPRINGEU #SPRING #beewild #cfe_uc #pollination #pollinators #wildbee

It’s that time of the year when the sunset betrays you, rain and cold sneak in, and there’s barely a flower on sight. Yet daisies and chrysanthemums brighten our sights, and the only insects around are a bunch of flies like this one:

Marmalade hoverfly, Episyrphus balteatus on a seasonally orange flower. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142672683

#iNaturalit #hoverflies #syrphids