Posts Tagged: Syrphidae
Hovering
The warmth of the sun and the lure of nectar beckoned the hover flies or flower flies to our bee...
Hover fly on rock purslane
Nectar Lover
Ready for Take-Off
Squatters' Rights
Squatters' rights. A dandelion poking through the rocks near Nick's Cove on Tomales Bay, in...
Fly-In
Two's Company
On the Rim
Alone
If It Looks Like a Duck....
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck. If it...
Flying in
Knobbed antennae
Nectaring
Hovering
Hover flies do know how to hover. Like a helicopter with spinning...
Hovering
Nectaring
Painting?
To Bee or Not to Bee
To bee or not to bee. Not to bee. The flying insect hovering over the Ruth Risdon Storer...
Like a hovering helicopter, the hover fly lingers over flowers in the Ruth Risdon Storer Garden, UC Davis Arboretum. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The hover fly, from the syrphid family, works the flowers in the Storer Garden, part of the UC Davis Arboretum. The syphrids, in their larval stage, eat plant-sucking pests or decaying matter, and in their adult stage, they pollinate flowers as they go after the nectar and pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)