Kiki Yes! Richard Fisher's beautiful photo shows us two hoverflies foraging on a pink cosmos. Thank you!       🌷🐝 🌸🐛🌻🦋🌼I'm pretty sure the one on the cosmos is our devious friend, the Drone Fly, Eristalis tenax. The one in flight might be Sphaerophoria.The vertical bar connecting two bands on the abdomen of E.tenax into a sideways H is distinctive. Flies also have stubby antennae, large eyes, and two wings. Bees have long antennae, medium eye, and four wings fused together.Hoverflies, or flower flies, are also important pollinators. Many species are excellent aphid predators.More here:<a href="https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/hover-flower-or-syrphid-flies-syrphidae" target="_blank">https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/hover-flower-or-syrphid-flies-syrphidae</a>/

Kiki Yes! Richard Fisher's beautiful photo shows us two hoverflies foraging on a pink cosmos. Thank you!       🌷🐝 🌸🐛🌻🦋🌼I'm pretty sure the one on the cosmos is our devious friend, the Drone Fly, Eristalis tenax. The one in flight might be Sphaerophoria.The vertical bar connecting two bands on the abdomen of E.tenax into a sideways H is distinctive. Flies also have stubby antennae, large eyes, and two wings. Bees have long antennae, medium eye, and four wings fused together.Hoverflies, or flower flies, are also important pollinators. Many species are excellent aphid predators.More here:<a href="https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/hover-flower-or-syrphid-flies-syrphidae" target="_blank">https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/hover-flower-or-syrphid-flies-syrphidae</a>/

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