Double Great Pied Hoverfly by kaward

Photography • Insects • posted on Aug 21, 2014

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Description

Volucella pellucens is the latin name this "daddy" of the hoverflies in the UK. It certainly is hard to miss as hoverflies go, as big as a bumble bee! It is 2 shots of the same one I took as it crawled over one knapweed bloom. Smaller hoverflies just move out of it's way. I hope you like this one Andrea? I thought I better try and get a shot for you as soon as I saw it. I wasn't sure what type it was at the time. Taken with my 70-200 zoom, it was on the camera at the time I saw it. I did try to get my macro lens out but it had gone!

Comments (11)

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Cyve

3:31PM | Thu, 21 August 2014

Outstanding captures my friend !!! Marvelous pictures!

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Adobe_One_Kenobi

3:35PM | Thu, 21 August 2014

It does bully it's way about doesn't it, when I first saw one of these I swore it foreign, I learned differently of course when I captured one, and researched it. Great shot Kev. I am now of course imagining what it would have looked like with the IR converted body :)

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