People often confuse the dear little hoverfly, friend of the gardener and of us all, with stinging wasps and bees. That's because their bodies have the yellow and black stripes which actually act as a deterrent to predators. Even predators are fooled into thinking they sting. The hoverfly pollinates flowers and some kinds of hoverfly have larvae that eat aphids. Today I took my first Macro photographs of a fly and, bless it, it was a hoverfly that kindly kept still long enough for me to get a half-decent shot (well, ok, less than half-decent). It was so busy gorging itself on a fuchsia flower that it paid me no attention at all.
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| Hoverfly feeding from a fuchsia anther |
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| Hoverfly feeding from a fuchsia anther |
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| Hoverfly feeding from a fuchsia anther |
http://gardeners-word.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/hoverfly.htmlhttp://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmay07/cd-hoverflies.htmlhttp://www.gardensafari.net/english/hoverflies.htmhttp://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/wildlifegarden/atoz/h/hoverfly.aspx