Beauty of Creativity : Hover fly ( syrphid flies) - 10% beneficiary to @beautycreativity - #boc

These few days my health is a little less good, I'm also absent from posting, but thankfully today it's starting to get better and I hope we are all healthy and happy.

today I will post some photos of little hover flies, coincidentally when I found them making love, this is a good moment for me, although my presence bothers them, of course it's a bit difficult to photograph them because of their relatively small body size.

Largely, these are small and short bodied insects. Identification between syrphid flyspecies can be tricky as they are highly variable in appearance. Generally, Sphaerophoria spp. has one pair of iridescent wings, big eyes, a short tongue, and black and yellow stripes. Sphaerophoria philanthus has a long thin abdomen that curves slightly under at the end. The abdomen is about 3 times longer than the stout, bulbous thorax.

The tergites, or back plates, on the abdomen are usually interrupted and not full stripes. They have 6 yellow legs with the hind pair much longer than the fore-pairs. Sphaerophoria philanthus are usually 7.6 to 9.6 millimeters in length.

Alright so I'm not curious anymore, here are some of my shots, I hope you like this.

Hover flies, also called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae (maggots) eat a wide range of foods. In some species, the larvae are saprotrophs, eating decaying plant and animal matter in the soil or in ponds and streams.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover_fly.
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/syrphid-fly.shtml.

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