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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 20, 2007

Found this one on a Malva moschata

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Aug 20, 2007

It looks like it is eating an insect...

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Aug 21, 2007

I have seen one recently added to the diptera site with an elongated face, which yours looks to have, it seemed strange. I don't remember which family it was though!

I don't think it's eating an insect, the tongue is stretched to the flower which it looks to be feeding on.

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 21, 2007

Thanks. In this picture it shows the facial part more clearly.

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Aug 21, 2007

I thought it looked like a Syrphid Fly so checked out the Gallery at diptera.info, I think it's a female Rhingia campestris in the Family Syrphidae.

http://diptera.info/

The links now don't seem to show the pic, you will have to go to the Gallery.

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Aug 21, 2007

http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/aol/image?query=Rhingia%20campestris&invocationType=imageTab

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 21, 2007

I think that's the one, wallaby! I compared it with both sites and only the colour doesn't seem to match, but I guess that this is probably due to the fact that mine was taken in the shadow and I remember that I noticed it in the flight before it landed that it had a reddish hue.

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