Epistrophe eligans

A female hoverfly resting on a tomato plant in my garden. A species that is particularly welcome because adults are pollinators and larvae are aphidophagous and therefore eat aphids.

Beynat, Limousin, France

Photo ID: Epistrophe_eligans.002

Photo size: 24.0 Mpixels (68.7 MB uncompressed) - 6000x4000 pixels (20x13.3 in / 50.8x33.9 cm at 300 ppi)

Photo keywords: Adult, Beynat, Corrèze, Epistrophe, Epistrophe eligans, Female, Fly, France, Hoverfly, Imago, insect, Insecta, Limousin, Macro, Nature, Syrphidae, Syrphidés, Wildlife

Published in: Hoverflies (Syrphidae), In my garden, Other Insects of my wet meadow. Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France., Flies (Diptera)