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06-06-2018, 04:42 PM
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Hoverflies.

Handy little guide to these garden predators.



Did you know - hoverflies are important pollinators and there are over 280 species in the UK. Here are a few of them.
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06-06-2018, 04:54 PM
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Re: Hoverflies.

thanks Nom.

There seems to be a lot of them around at the moment. Went for a walk today and was plagued by the things.

I think my 'Bee' in the photo comp was probably a hoverfly.

Great chart.
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06-06-2018, 05:29 PM
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Re: Hoverflies.

Originally Posted by Longdogs ->
thanks Nom.

There seems to be a lot of them around at the moment. Went for a walk today and was plagued by the things.

I think my 'Bee' in the photo comp was probably a hoverfly.

Great chart.
You could well be correct, i cant find that back patten on our Bumblebees.

Your Dragonfly , is a Female Large red Damselfly, both excellent photos.
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06-06-2018, 05:32 PM
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Re: Hoverflies.

Originally Posted by Nom ->
You could well be correct, i cant find that back patten on our Bumblebees.

Your Dragonfly , is a Female Large red Damselfly, both excellent photos.
Yes, I realised that too after I had posted but left it too long to edit.
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06-06-2018, 06:06 PM
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Re: Hoverflies.

There are lots in my garden & they seem to like people too, one followed me around.
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06-06-2018, 06:47 PM
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Re: Hoverflies.

I think most of those can be found in my kitchen right now
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17-06-2018, 08:56 AM
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Re: Hoverflies.

There are quite a few in my back garden that annoy my JR they hover just above her head and I watch her snatching at them most of the day when she is out there laying in the sun.
Sometimes she just gives up and comes in drops in her bed and covers herself up with blankets.
I think its to get away from them.
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17-06-2018, 09:11 AM
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Re: Hoverflies.

Such a pity that they are not in a language I can read. I didn’t do Latin in school and I suspect a lot of people are in the same boat, Latin is a dead language, but by the by, interesting chart, I didn’t know there were so many, thanks
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17-06-2018, 01:59 PM
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Re: Hoverflies.

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Such a pity that they are not in a language I can read. I didn’t do Latin in school and I suspect a lot of people are in the same boat, Latin is a dead language, but by the by, interesting chart, I didn’t know there were so many, thanks
Neither did I tbh.

I remember camping with my parents in Cornwall when I was little and having lots of these around. We all thought they were wasps so we moved our tent to another part of the site, only to be told by a fellow camper that 'They be 'ovver flies, they do be'.
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17-06-2018, 03:02 PM
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Re: Hoverflies.

There are not nearly so many hoverflies around as there used to be . On sunny summer days as a child I used to love laying in the long grass watching them
 
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