Two hoverflies, a fly and another insect for ID, please.

[jeremiah]

Two hoverflies, a fly and another insect for ID, please.

1) Is the hoverfly Eupeodes luniger? I have no idea what the little greenish fly and the other insect could be.



2) Same as above, plus another hoverfly, from a different angle.


There were masses of hoverfly and other insects around these brassicas, I think they were attracted to the honeydew from aphids and whitefly.

[Dogghound]

You have got Scavea selenitica (big hoverfly), the smaller H fly is Eupeodes looks go for E.corollae. The other insect (top photo) is a parasitic wasp

[JRsbugs]

The small hoverfly in the bottom pic, right, looks like it could be Eupeodes latifasciatus.

The tiny greenish wasp in the bottom left of the bottom pic is probably a Chalcid wasp.

Janet

[Jason Green]

Afternoon Jeremiah,

First photo: Top-right - a True Fly, maybe a Lauxaniid - impossible to be sure. The central hoverfly is Scaeva selenitica - a nice find and to the bottom-right is an Ichneumon or Braconid Wasp.

Second photo: First hoverfly is selenitica again, slightly below to the right is Eupeodes latifasciatus and then below to the left is the same wasp as the first, as is the same True Fly below that.

Take care,

Jason

[JRsbugs]

Jason, I'm not quite seeing the bottom wasp being the same as the one in the top pic. It doesn't look to have yellow legs for a start, but a wasp it is.

[jeremiah]

Thank you!

Hoverflies are very "moreish", aren't they? By the way, "nice find" doesn't come into it - that cabbage patch was hotching (inside and outside the netting) and it was just a question of point and click and hope something is in focus.

The little fly looks just like the (single) Lauxonid illustration in my "Insects of Britain" - but I wouldn't have known where to start looking.

Given the cabbage connection, could the wasp be Cotesia glomerata?
(No, I've never heard of them before but google is my friend - and now I know what ate my pet caterpillar when I was in primary.)