Southern Marsh Orchids

Southern Marsh Orchids

Monday 11 April 2016

garden hoverflies 09 April

The sun shone and the hoverflies came in to check out the flowerbeds. Saw a  couple of Marmalade Hoverflies and a few Eristalis pertinax - particularly on the bright yellow wallflowers


and a number of smaller hoverflies seemed to like the saxifrage. Don't know what these are, possible Meliscaeva . I couldn't get a good view of the abdomen so probably not going to get an ID for this one.





2 comments:

  1. That looks like a male Melanostoma scalare - note the long, narrow abdomen which separates it from the male of M. mellinum.

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  2. Thanks George. I really struggle with these small hoverflies.

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