Tapered Drone Fly Eristalis pertinax Male & Female

e6filmuser

Eristalis hoverflies have the aquatic larvae known as "rat-tailed maggots".

I usually find E. tenax the Drone Fly. The patterns are variable in both species but this one has the yellow front tarsi.

These were on ragwort yesterday.

I think the first image is of a female and the second is definitely a male.

Olympus EM-1 (manual mode), Olympus 4/3 x2 TC, Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, 1/160 at f10 ISO 250, hand held.

Harold

IPClark

Nice Only seen one drone this year and it was particularly active so couldn't photograph it.

Paul Iddon

Very good Harold.

Paul.