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Male Hoverfly Feeding on White and Yellow Flowers in a UK Summer Garden

A marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) feeding on a white flower, sunny day in summer, Vienna (Austria)

A Syrphus Eastern Calligrapher forages on flower in summer.

$Hover fly on thistle,Eifel,Germany.\nPlease see more similar pictures of my Portfolio.\nThank you$

Hoverfly perched on yellow flower in the garden. Example of mimicry between insects.

Hover fly in natural life. This little hover fly likes to be in a meadow. Close up common hover fly hovering or nectaring at white flower of spiked rampion in alpine meadow in summer

Hoverfly on a sea holly flower with copy space

Syrphid flies, A hoverfly on a flower, A close-up

Cherry blossom in an English country garden.

Bumblebee on a yellow flower collects pollen, selective focus

Box-head hoverfly on yellow goose flower. The location is a wild flower field in the Haarlemmermeer, very close to the Amsterdam airport.

Aphid eating flies in the wild, North China

A hoverfly (epistrophe grossulariae) doing a good job of pollinating a common boneset (eupatorium perfoliatum).

A bee mimic hoverfly on a group of flowers.

A yellow flower with a bee on it. The flower is the main focus of the image

Insect on Flower, white with yellow, side view, in a field. Plenty of copy space for your text.

Closeup of a bee sitting on a chamomile flower.

Batesian wasp mimic foraging on a purple flower.

An overhead view of A black and yellow insect with purple eyes pollinating a blackberry flower with the summer sunshine glistening on its pink and white bloom

Hoverfly inside of a yellow Portulaca flowerhead.

The bees on the white flowers are sucking the sweet water.

$Hoverflies, also called flower flies or syrphids, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae (maggots) eat a wide range of foods. In some species, the larvae are saprotrophs specifically Detritivores [1] eating decaying plant and animal matter in the soil or in ponds and streams. In other species, the larvae are insectivores, preying on aphids, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects.\n\nInsects such as aphids are considered crop pests, and therefore the aphid-eating larvae of some hoverflies are economically and ecologically important. The larvae are potential agents for use in biological control; while the adults are pollinators.\n\nAbout 6,000 species in 200 genera have been described. Hoverflies are common throughout the world and can be found on all continents except Antarctica. Hoverflies are harmless to most mammals, though many species are mimics of stinging wasps and bees, a mimicry which may serve to ward off predators.$

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