The hoverfly, Sun Fly (Helophilus pendulus), is back and landing on rocks around my garden pond. It appears it may well be a regular visitor.
May 2017, Staffordshire, England.
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Beautiful sun fly, Pete! 🙂
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Thank you, Indira 🙂
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I didn’t know they made sun-glasses that small! Great shots as usual pete.
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Thank you 🙂 Apparently they do 😉
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How beautiful! Nice macro. Looks like he has space age goggles on. 🙂
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Thank you, Judy 🙂 His eyes certainly stand out!
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Attractive little insect, excellent detail.
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Thank you, Belinda 🙂
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A rather attractive fly (if flies could be called attractive) 🙂
Love the patterns of its body.
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Some flies can be quite attractive with their colours and patterning.
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Fabulous! Look at those eyes!
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Than you, Sumyanna 🙂 Yes, the eyes have it.
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Oh, I wanted to tell you… Over the summer I am going to start a blog for my daughter’s photography. She actually has some amazing closeups just like yours although her equipment is not as advanced. I will share the link later, but she is incredibly excited. Her teacher suggested I start a blog for her.
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That will be fantastic, Sumyanna! It will be great to see her macro photography. I will look forward to the link so I can follow! 🙂
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We are still struggling with a name… still trying to finish up school so my mind just isn’t in it yet. Hoping to get something started next week 🙂 Thanks!
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He/she/it’s a lot prettier than the flesh fly.
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The colours and patterns on these hoverflies can be quite something.
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Nice! We get the Black and Yellow Migrant, but this is a first seeing this one, and I don’t think we get this species down here.
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Cheers, Ark 🙂
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Wow! Such a cool pair of shades!
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🙂
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Hover-flies are brilliant, there’s a kind of friendliness about them. Lovely pics Pete 🙂
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Thank you, Jude 🙂 I also find they are sometimes quite curious about us and get quite close. I was sat on my decking near my garden pond when I spotted this one. And even though it knew I was there and quite close to it, it didn’t fly very far, but came even closer!
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