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  1. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    surely tenax?
  2. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    not a hoverfly. Stratiomyidae, either Chloromyia formosa or Microchrysa polita
  3. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    #1 Eristalis #2,3,4 Apis mellifera
  4. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    #1 Eristalis (probably tenax, not intricaria) #2 Sphaerophoria scripta #3 Syrphus sp #4 Eupeodes sp
  5. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Actually a leaf-cutter bee Megachile
  6. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    It is.
  7. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    1+2 correct 3. V. inanis 5. Platychirus albimanus, presumably 4 same individual
  8. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Certainly close to T. fera but need to eliminate Tachina lurida, Tachina magnicornis & Tachina praeceps.
  9. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    correct
  10. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    By far the best way to det flies alive is to hold them in your fingers, then you can manoeuvre them any direction, do not have to look through glass/plastic, and sometimes they even sit still! start with large Eristalis before you try more delicate species. Just hold 2-3 legs between thumb and...
  11. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    no, what you need to do is take specimens and key them, your failure to recognise the very common Syritta pipiens, which you must have seen before, is a classic example of the impossibility of adequately learning insects (apart from the really obvious) without carefully keying specimens, it is...
  12. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Syrphus sp
  13. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    miles out! Syritta pipiens
  14. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Leucozona lucorum, melanic
  15. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    tis
  16. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    it is
  17. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    correct
  18. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    correct
  19. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    probably Cheilosia albitarsis/ranunculi, females not identifiable.
  20. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Syrphus Stubbs & Falk is not constructed to allow identification of photos. You need to take specimens and key them under microscope, or at least with a hand lens. once you have learnt them this way then field/photo identification becomes possible in many cases.
  21. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    not corollae, use Falk and Stubbs's key, you will probably come to lunulata.
  22. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    probably but all females so cannot be safely named
  23. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    hf6 - Old Winchester Hill, September probably E. arbustorum hf7 (two pics) - Old Winchester Hill, September Platychirus hf7a looks like albimanus but hf7b does not so if these are same individual best leave it at Platychirus.
  24. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    try here http://www.benhs.org.uk/portal/node/5
  25. Ficedula

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Eristalis sp. aristal hairs will rarely be visible in photos
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