A welcome harbinger of spring - the Spring Smoothtail Hoverfly Epistrophe eligans

This is the common early Hoverfly Epistrophe eligans which seems to be increasing. The markings on the abdomen are distinctive.
The larvae feed on aphids in trees.

Order Diptera
Family Syrphidae

22/4/2024

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