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RE: Best of my garden

in Fascinating Insects4 years ago (edited)

Very beautiful pics, but:

#2 - Common bee

Nope. A(nother) hoverfly!

Like all other flies they have only two wings plus halteres, while wasps and bees have four wings.

#5 -Fly Lucilia sericata

It's any species of the large genus Lucilia, right ...

#6 -Common bee

Hoverfly, again!

By the way, there is no "common" bee or ant. There are several different species with specific names.

I suggest you to read my pinned post.

By the way, just recently I had a discussion with @barski who thought a hoverfly would be a drone of a western honey bee. It seems these hoverflies really know how to trick you! :)

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@jaki01 , After looking your pinned post, I don't understand why the #2 and #6 are not the honey bee ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_honey_bee

If you check your pictures you will notice that hoverflies (like all flies) have only two wings (bees and wasps have four).

Then, furthermore, I think one can recognize kind of a 'white spot' on the back/side of the flies in some of your pictures. These reduced wings are called "halteres". Please check this image.

The eyes of hoverflies are huge, their antennae very short, and their proboscis looks different than the one of bees.

Concerning #6 I just made the effort to determine the exact species for you: it's a female Eristalis arbustorum (please check for example the pattern on its back).

@jaki01 Ok, I understand that you say bees have 4 wings, and hoverflies have 2 wings, but based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_honey_bee, this one has only 2 wings and I think this is the same one on my picture, isn't ? Or on my photos there are 4 wings that look like 2 wings ?
I just want to understand ..

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Thanks for your message.
I updated my post based on your comments
I also bookmarked your pinned post to try to avoid errors next time ;-)