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Post #717:

Published on Saturday, 17th June 2023 at 1:49 PM

🧭 Kalbach
🌐 Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Beautiful shiny hoverfly!✨🐝

I suspect it is a Melanostoma species. Pretty sure a male.

The distance between the eyes of hoverflies is always narrower in males than in females.👀

Their larvae eat aphids and the adults feed on flower nectar and pollen.🌺🌼🌸

📊 Around 48,000 animal species have been identified in Germany, including over 33,000 insect species. Insects make up around 70 percent of all animal species in Germany.

Species in this post: Melanostoma hoverfly Melanostoma species
Topic: ➟ Insects

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Post #335:

Published on Saturday, 21st September 2019 at 5:45 AM

🧭 Oberursel
🌐 Oberursel, Hesse, Germany

🌸🚁 Marmalade hoverfly (male),
Episyrphus balteatus
(06/2019 in Oberursel, Germany)

Marmalade hoverflies always follow the nice weather! 🌞 This species belongs to the migratory insects and forms dense seasonal swarms. In autumn, these travel from Central Europe to the Mediterranean region (vice versa in spring). The hoverflies cross the passes of the low mountain ranges, the Pyrenees and the Alps! 👍🐝

🎶 Music: "Hey, Are You Here?"
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