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Wildlife Photography and Digital Video Images

 

                                                                                                                                                Flies 60 – Large Pied Hoverflies

 

 

A bee on a flower

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A close up of a bee on a flower

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A close up of a bee

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A close up of a bee on a flower

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A close up of a bee

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A bee on a flower

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A close up of a bee

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A close up of a fly on a leaf

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A bee on a flower

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A close up of a fly

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A close up of a bee on a flower

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A close up of a fly

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (f)

 

A close up of a bee on a flower

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LARGE PIED-HOVERFLY Volucella pellucens (m)

 

 

·         The Large Pied Hoverfly Volucella pellucens is one of the largest and most distinctive of British flies, of which there are over 7,000 species, more than 280 of which are hoverflies (Syrphidae)! The males are territorial, and often to be seen hovering in sunlit woodland glades. Many flies cannot be accurately identified purely by looking at photographs.

                            

 

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