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  1. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks Aeshna and Ficedula for your last replay! :t: Another little hover from that famous meadow in the Midlands. I think it is a Platycheirus of some kind, no idea if it can be IDed to species level.
  2. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks again, Ficedula!! :t: This post is mainly for confirmations: 1- Sericomyia silentis 2- Eupeodes luniger 3&4- Not very convinced about this one. An Eristalis I believe. Can it be Eristalis interruptus=nemorum? That black spot in the wing near the edge seems too noticeable comparing with...
  3. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Unfortunately it was very uncooperative and flew away too quick before I managed any lateral or frontal shots. I have a bit blurred shot of it when I started to try to get its face but doesn't show much. It is the first attachment, just in case it is of any help. Pics 2 and 3 are just...
  4. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks for your latest replies, Ficedula!! :t: Being able to place those two in a genus is what I did need to start to locate the rest of the similar ones I found. I am pretty sure now that what I took initially for 1 species is going to turn out to be at least 3!! :eek!: While I work on the...
  5. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    I didn't think my female hoverfly in post '337' wasn't easy to ID, at least the genus :-C Anyway, this male was pretty common around the same location and I even thought about the possibility of being the same species of my previous post although they look rather different. I thought it could...
  6. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks a lot!! This was a nice surprise!! :t: And now one that I haven't the foggiest idea. Very small, taken in the same location in the Midlands but feeding by some brambles. At some point it just sat like that and didn't care how much I approached. I saw something reasonably similar in the...
  7. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks once more, Ficedula!! :t: And what about this other Eristalis? The pictures were taken in a field by a forest in the middle of nowhere in the Midlands, somewhere near Bewdley. I know it cannot be tenax or pertinax (unless I still haven't got those two right) as it seems to have a dark...
  8. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Here is the picture!! I think it is Volucella zonaria but I have no idea if there is a similar species in Spain. But I saw something in Nottingham that looked like this, so I assume that the one in Nottingham at least is V. zonaria. I don't think it can be confused with something else in...
  9. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    I saw a Hornet Hoverfly in Nottingham on August the 11th. Unfortunately it also flew away before I could take any picture but what I saw with my bare eye was extremely similar to a Hornet Hoverfly I saw in Spain and which I could photograph. Have to look for that picture and show it to you so...
  10. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks once more, Ficedula!! :t: But can you clarify my 3rd picture? I don't know if it is a Syrphus or something else.
  11. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    That Myathropa florea completely fooled me!! :eek!: Well, here comes another set of pictures. The first two show an Eristalis taken in a garden in Nottingham (hint got, Ficedula! ;) :-O) and I think it might be Eristalis tenax. The third one was taken in a meadow near Bewdly, in the Midlands...
  12. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thank you, Aeshna!! And now one for confirmation and one for ID. The first one I think it is Melascaeva cinctella. I am lost with the second one. I saw the specimen and had time to take 2 pictures, one so out of focus that went directly to the bin and this one. Then it flew away and couldn't...
  13. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    :-O :-O :-O That remark made me laugh as I see your point! The only trouble is that I believe one has to kill the hoverfly to examine it under a microscope and I don't have the guts to do it. The punishment for my cowardice is not being able to know for sure what I find out there :-O Yes, all...
  14. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks for your input, Ficedula! That is not good news for me as I doubt I will ever collect hoverflies to examin them under a microscope :-C Well, my next pictures are of something that most likely will remain unidentified. Looks like Eristalis but the body looks longish compared to the idea I...
  15. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Hey, robhope! Tricky indeed, I have seen many Eristalis sp. during the summer, both in Spain and England and I don't have a single species in my lifelist. Simply I am not 100% sure of any of them. Hope one day I will learn to ID them and take better pictures where the best features can be seen...
  16. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks a lot for the confirmation, Ficedula! A few more for confirmation, while I prepare pictures of the ones that are more difficult for me. Hope I got these right (if I don't, I'd better give up hoverflies :-O): 1. Volucella pelluscens 2. Helophilus pendulus 3. Myathropa florea
  17. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks a lot for your reply, Aeshna! They look so different! But I had a feeling they all might be the same thing. Here is the second encounter with a hoverfly of my holiday in England. It was in the same garden than the previous ones. I guess it is a Syrphus of some kind. I don't know if those...
  18. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    I have just returned from a little holiday in England and there were hoverflies absolutely everywhere. I took over 800 pics of them! :eek!: I know I have got about 15 different species at least. Loads of work to do to classifly all those pictures! :king: Here I am posting the first set of...
  19. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks!! :t: Run out of Hoverflies pics now :-O Thanks again for all your help, Ficedula! Cheers! B (:
  20. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    OMG! That was quick!! Thanks a lot once more!! :t: I promise this is the last Hoverfly I post :smoke: I find it different to E. tenax and E. arbustorum Any chance of E. interrupta?
  21. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Well, I have it clear now! And obviosly all pics I found of rueppellii are clearly misidentifications. Thanks a lot for all the information, Ficedula! :t: The last shots of mystery Hoverflies I have. Still haven't worked with them so they might be even easy to ID but I have no idea what they are.
  22. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    The ones I know have a long abdomen and are common are scripta and ruppelli. There might be some more in Spain but are not common. So I think I can be 99% sure it is scripta. And see what I have found. Taken In the outskirts of Madrid at the begining of June. Can that be considered a 'lateral...
  23. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks again, Ficedula!! o:) I am not using any book. I have just discovered Hoverflies. But seeing how much I am getting obsessed with them, I'd better get one :-O Thanks for the book suggestion! :t: By the information you have provided I guess this one is a S. scripta for sure, isn't it? Have...
  24. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    WOW!! I have learnt something here! Really I had no idea what would separate S. scripta from others of the genus. I thought it would be the pattern of the abdomen. I have checked pics in the Internet of S. rueppellii before uploading my pictures and looks the same to me. Probably...
  25. Gavia_immer

    The Hoverfly Thread

    Thanks again, Ficedula!! Yes, I see what you mean. I have been checking and yes, it might be something very related to arbustorum. Enough of Eristalis :-O I have found quite a number of specimens of Sphaerophoria At first I simply decided that all were Sphaerophoria scripta but checking...
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