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p.1 #1 · Suprise hoverfly

Had a suprise visitor yesterday - I think it's Scaeva selenitica (yellow abdomen stripes). Feeding fairly ravenously on sugar/honey drops on the camelia bush.
Had an accident after the flight shot where I managed to catapult it in the air- it did a half somersault and landed upside down in some sugar honey syrup. Feeling rather guilty about this I spend the next 5 mins cleaning the poor thing off with damp and dry tissues until I managed to get it off the wings and it then flew off.

Brian V.

Dec 11, 2012 at 09:38 AM

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p.1 #2 · Suprise hoverfly

great set,esp like the last shot

Dec 11, 2012 at 03:15 PM

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p.1 #3 · Suprise hoverfly

I agree on the last shot. The in flight shot is very cool too.

Dec 11, 2012 at 05:18 PM

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p.1 #4 · Suprise hoverfly

Great series of highly varied and very interesting poses and compositions. Great saga about the accidental acrobatics into the bait, too!

Dec 12, 2012 at 02:18 AM

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p.1 #5 · Suprise hoverfly

love the last 3 brian

Dec 12, 2012 at 02:43 AM

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p.1 #6 · Suprise hoverfly

Thanks for the comments everybody - appreciated.

BTW- slight explanation on the title - it was the species of hoverfly that was a suprise - not very common and certainly not in Winter. I do quite often see other hovers this time of year in the garden as long as the sun is out.
Brian v.

Dec 12, 2012 at 07:06 AM

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p.1 #7 · Suprise hoverfly

very nice Brian

Dec 24, 2012 at 08:41 AM

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p.1 #8 · Suprise hoverfly

The in-flight is cool, but the last shot rocks.

Dec 24, 2012 at 10:38 PM

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p.1 #9 · Suprise hoverfly

how in the world did you manage to get one in flight? I was out chasing bee's today and it was hard enough to focus on them while they were still.

Dec 24, 2012 at 10:47 PM

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p.1 #10 · Suprise hoverfly

Thanks all for the comments

BenV - well it hovered in front of my lens

Brian v.

Dec 25, 2012 at 07:32 AM

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