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Big-nose Hoverfly

DateThu 2014-09-11

A female Rhingia campestris (Diptera: Syrphidae).  One of at least 8 of this species that I saw that day in two patches of nettles and dead-nettles.

Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2014-08-31.

AuthorTristram Brelstaff | CommentPost a Comment |
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