Hoverfly Chrysotoxum bicinctum
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

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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