Thursday
Mar072013
Hoverfly

A female Episyrphus balteatus (Diptera: Syrphidae).
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-07-15.
A female Episyrphus balteatus (Diptera: Syrphidae).
Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-07-15.
From last autumn: a Tachinid fly, probably Voria ruralis (Diptera: Tachinidae).
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-09-21.
A male Scaeva pyrastri (Diptera: Syrphidae).
Photos taken above Hutton Village, near Guisborough, North Yorkshire, UK, on 2010-08-10.
Another hoverfly from last summer: a female Syritta pipiens (Diptera: Syrphidae). Black and light grey body; swollen hind femurs.
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-07-28.
From late last summer: a female hoverfly, probably Chrysotoxum festivum (Diptera: Syrphidae).
Photo taken in Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-08-26.