Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Scaeva?

Posted by Larry Shone on 10-05-2010 18:05
#1
Another Hoverfly taken on the same day but looking quite different. Would this be Scaeva pyrastri?

img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/Dawnrider/Nature/hoverfly_on_ragwort02.jpg

Posted by Roger Thomason on 10-05-2010 18:22
#2
Might be Platycheirus albimanus

Posted by Larry Shone on 10-05-2010 18:25
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Roger Thomason wrote:
Might be Platycheirus albimanus

Thank you! That certainly seems to be it!
http://en.wikiped..._albimanus

My book just doesnt cut it for flies!