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28-07-2010, 06:59 PM
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| | | 3 Hoverflies for ID please
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28-07-2010, 08:21 PM
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1 Syrphus sp.
2 & 3 Eristalis sp.
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28-07-2010, 09:22 PM
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Evening Hed,
I agree with A ( the first could be Syrphus ribesii).
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28-07-2010, 09:27 PM
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#1 Syrphus ribesii
#2 Myathropa florea
#3 Eristalis tenax
All with a small 'maybe' but they look good to me.
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28-07-2010, 09:34 PM
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Thanks, all. They move faster than I do!
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29-07-2010, 04:41 AM
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2 looks more like an Eristalis than Myathropa to me. |
29-07-2010, 07:09 AM
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Yup, too brown! One like arbustorum can have similar abdominal markings, but of course in orange as opposed to yellow. |
29-07-2010, 01:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Green  Yup, too brown! One like arbustorum can have similar abdominal markings, but of course in orange as opposed to yellow. | I have some Myathropa florea with markings and colouring very similar to that one!
Looking again, it could be Eristalis tenax male as it often has extra colouring on the abdomen, but it's not too easy from that pic to tell.
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29-07-2010, 01:09 PM
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...agreed - I've had a tenax down as Myathropa earlier this year. |
29-07-2010, 04:08 PM
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Got a better shot of it today in same area: 
does this qualify it?
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