Its behavior sugested that it was laying eggs. The sunflowers are crawling with aphids giving plenty for the hover-fly larvae to graze on.
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2 comments:
It looks like a female Syrphus ribessi or similar. There is a similar shaped one that is smaller and is white where this one is yellow. Too fast for me is the black and white one.
Thanks for that Adrian. Best regards Peter
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