Chrysotoxum cautum female gathering nectar of a Blue Aphyllanthes flower. Diois, France.
Chrysotoxum cautum female gathering nectar of a flax flower in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Chrysotoxum cautum female gathering nectar of a flax flower in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
An hoverfly female gathering nectar of a flower of buttercup. Limousin, France.
A very small hoverfly (Melanostoma mellinum) male cleans on a blade of grass in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
An hoverfly, a Tapered Drone Fly female gathering nectar of a wood anemone flower near a forest. Limousin, France.
A hoverfly female gathering nectar an umbelliferous flower around the castle of Allymes. Ain, France.
A hoverfly female gathering nectar an umbelliferous flower around the castle of Allymes. Ain, France.
Bumblebee Hoverfly female gathering nectar of an oxeye daisy flower in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
A hoverfly (Scaeva selenitica) male resting on a conifer branch in marl. Diois, Drome, France.
A hoverfly (Scaeva selenitica) male resting on a conifer branch in marl. Diois, Drome, France.
Brachypalpus valgus male gathering nectar of a flower of Barren Strawberry in a wet meadow near the forest. Limousin, France.
Hornet Mimic Hoverfly female resting on a shrub in a calcareous rocky slope. Murel, Lot, France.
Tachinid Fly gathering nectar of a scabious flower in an alpine meadow. Vercors, France.
A nice hoverfly female that resembles a wasp with tabanid eyesforaging scabious flower in an alpine meadow. Col de Lachau, Vercors, France.
Ferdinandea cuprea, a large hoverfly, on a Common chicory flower. Limousin, France.
Long Hoverflies mating, the female is on the right and Long Hoverflies mating, the female is on the right and the male on the left, in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Long Hoverflies mating, the male is on the right and the female on the left, in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Common Red-legged Robberfly with it's prey, an Ichneumonid wasp on a shrub leaf at the edge of a small path.