another bug (1 Viewer)

[Surreybirder]

Can anyone ID this one, please. About an inch long flying among flowers in a boggy woodland clearing.

Edit: Now that the photo has been identified I've moved it to the insect gallery at
This location

 

[John N]

Han'nt a clue what they are but the photo's look pretty good to me. :t:

 

[Michael Frankis]

Might be a Strangalia species (a longhorn, Cerambycidae) - my insect book doesn't have an exact match, but Strangalia maculata is similar, and has the text "one of several similar species; pattern varies"

Michael

 

[Karl J]

Han'nt a clue what they are but the photo's look pretty good to me. :t:

... yep same here ...

 

[Surreybirder]

Thanks, everyone. Someone else assures me that it's Strangalia maculata (family Cerambycidae) so it must be a variable species. Could the second photo be a hoverfly? (I'm not sure how you tell a stationary hoverfly from any other type of fly.)