Posts Tagged: hover fly
Do 'Cats Eat Other 'Cats? Do Larva Eat Other Larva?
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. It's also a 'cat-eat-'cat world, that is, when a caterpillar...
A lady beetle larva attacking and eating a syrphid fly larva. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The lady beetle larva (first photo) grew to an adult like this one. This is an Asian lady beetle. Regarding cannibalism, monarch caterpillars can and do eat one another. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jupiter's Beard Makes the Cut
Clean-shaven it's not. Yet it's a cut above. For bees, syrphids and butterflies, the long-blooming...
A honey bee foraging on Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A honey bee sipping nectar from Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A syrphid, also known as a hover fly or flower fly, hovering over Jupiter's Beard. Flies are pollinators, too! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A syrphid, aka hover fly or flower fly, sipping nectar from Jupiter's Beard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why Flies Are Pollinators, Too!
Will all the pollinators please stand up! Or do a fly-by like the Blue Angels or a crawl-by like...
A bee fly, genus Villa, collecting pollen on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee (left) and a syrphid fly, aka hover fly or flower fly, sharing a Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hide the Cactus!
Hide the cactus! There's a Mexican cactus fly in our midst. A large black fly hovers over a...
Black hover fly, aka Mexican cactus fly, sipping nectar from a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Side view of the black syrphid fly, a Mexican cactus flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mexican cactus fly ready to take off. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Rats!
Rats! How many times have you encountered a "honey bee" on the Internet, in a book, magazine,...
A drone fly, Eristalis tenax, on a Shasta daisy at the Luther Burbank Home and Gardens.. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A drone fly,Eristalis tenax, on yarrow at the Luther Burbank Home and Gardens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a drone fly, Eristalis tenax. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)