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lejun | profile | all galleries >> Other Insects >> Bees, Flies, Wasps, Midges and Related Species >> Flower (Syrphid) Flies

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Flower (Syrphid) Flies

Family Syrphidae: Many of these flies are bee and wasp mimics.
Other common names are flower and hover flies.

Ocyptamus spp.	Sericomyia spp?	Common Oblique Syrphid (Allograpta obliqua)	Syrphus spp.	Syrphus spp.	Syrphus spp.
Syrphus spp.	Copestylum sp.	Ocyptamus spp.	Yellowjacket Hover Fly	Milesia virginiensis	Milesia virginiensis
Yellowjacket Hover Fly	Eristalis transversa	Eristalis transversa	Eristalis spp.	Eristalis spp.	Eristalis spp.
Toxomerus politus	Toxomerus marginatus	Toxomerus spp.	Toxomerus Sp.	Volucella spp.	Volucella spp.
Volucella spp.	Spaerophoria spp.	Bacca spp.	Family Syrphidae	Allograpta obliqua or exotica	Allograpta obliqua or exotica
Allograpta obliqua or exotica	Eupeodes	Eupeodes	Eupeodes	Family Syrphidae	Family Syrphidae
Family Syrphidae	Family Syrphidae	Family Syrphidae	Family Syrphidae	Family Syrphidae	Family Syrphidae

David shlong		06-Jul-2011 13:09
Hello, at the moment and all most every summer, Here in the south of Sweden we have a invasions of these little guys. A good way of getting rid of them if there are many in your house, is fill a large tub with water and pour honey into the big tub. Wait a couple hours and you'll have millions of them there!

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