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Originally Posted by Gill Catton  I have yet to manage it in this country but when I went on holiday to Brittany last year I cam across this hoverfly which must be a Eristalis of some kind, and it seems to exhibit some sort of mate guarding behaviour which meant one fly hovered above the other for ages and ages and made capture easier.
yes bright sunny day, no wind and high shutter speed - though I only have a pansonic FZ30 and a raynox DCR lens I managed it!!  |
I was just going to say the same thing, over the last few weeks I've been seeing quite a few of these pairs in the field behind the house, sometimes there are 2 males hovering above the one female! It certainly makes photographing them so much easier!
It always seems to be the same species and I'm not sure how well distributed it is in the UK, but if you find some nice flowery meadows Mully you may find some of these flies exhibiting this behaviour, often the first thing you notice is the high pitched drone of the male hovering over the female.
Guy