Hoverfly Chrysotoxum bicinctum

e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
edited August 17, 2015 in Holy Macro
This is one Chrysotoxum species I am prepared to name.

This one was on my flowering Goldenrod. It had landed on the edge of the clump two or three paces away. I knew which genus it was, even at that distance. I turned toward it and it flew away.

It landed again but I could only get a rear view. As I moved around to get a side view it departed again.

Finally, it landed on a leaf just outside the Goldenrod path and let me take a couple of shots.

It has a light dusting of yellow pollen in places.

EM-1, Kiron 105mm macro at f11,TTL RC flash, hand-held.

The first image is uncropped; I have taken some of the bottom of the second one.

Harold


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