Hover Fly at Kioloa, NSW
Identification history
| Melangyna sp. | 8 Aug 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Apiformes (informal group) | 6 Jul 2020 | Marg |
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User's notes
There were easily around 60 or more of these bees on one flower. Then I discovered every yellow or yellow-gold flower had bees as well, so there would have been well over a hundred altogether.
2 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
14 Jul 2020
Although the half a creature on the left hand edge of the photo is a european honey bee, the rest of them are hover flies, probably Melangyna sp. They seem to really like yellow flowers, and exotics such as this brassica are about the only ones on offer at the moment. We've been mostly seeing them on fireweed at our place.
Marg
wrote:
14 Jul 2020
Thanks, Jackie. Hoverflies! I've never come across these before. No wonder when they took to the air they looked like a squadron of tiny helicopters.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.380325-35.542764
- Altitude 10.4m
- Places Kioloa, NSW
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 5 Jul 2020 11:21 AM Recorded on
- Marg Recorded by
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Collections
Insects True flies (Diptera) Hover flies (Syrphidae) Marg
Species information
- Melangyna sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Hover Fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1364m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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