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Title: Help Identify Please
Post by: UtahBees on January 19, 2008, 01:13:01 PM
Anyone know what this is?

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2111/2202704457_275e9701da.jpg) (http://flickr.com/photos/malingering/2202704457)

Regards,

Scott
Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: Michael Bush on January 19, 2008, 02:03:31 PM
A fly disguised as a bee.

Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: MrILoveTheAnts on January 19, 2008, 02:54:54 PM
A Syrphid of some sort, sometimes called a Hover fly. Their larva/groube forms are predators of aphids and very beneficial to have in a garden. To a degree they also pollinate plants but little is know about this.
Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: UtahBees on January 19, 2008, 05:38:24 PM
Thanks guys!
Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: DayValleyDahlias on January 19, 2008, 06:39:13 PM
What a gorgeous photo!
Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: johnnybigfish on January 19, 2008, 08:25:46 PM
Really, like Dahlia said, thats a GREAT picture!
Did you take this, and if you did what lens set-up do you use for this kind of picture.
your friend,
john
Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: UtahBees on January 20, 2008, 01:10:06 AM
Thanks guys. This is actually a "flickr friend" that took this photo. She has a Nikon D80 with a Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 lens. It's a "VR" or vibration reduction lens (as you probably know). She is not only a great photographer, but has great equipment and a good sense of humor.

You can find her Flickr stream here: http://flickr.com/photos/malingering/

Regards,

Scott
Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: Cindi on January 20, 2008, 10:45:28 AM
Quote from: UtahBees on January 19, 2008, 01:13:01 PM
Anyone know what this is?

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2111/2202704457_275e9701da.jpg) (http://flickr.com/photos/malingering/2202704457)
Scott
Scott I am pretty sure it is a syrphid fly species. I am going to try to get a picture of mine into this post so you can see how similar they look.  There are so many species of the syrphid.  Beautiful shot by the way.  Have the best of a wonderful day.  Cindi

(http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/6758/syrphidfly2gc8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: UtahBees on January 20, 2008, 01:54:43 PM
Thanks Cindi! Beautiful photo, and I think we have a match!

Regards,

Scott
Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: TwT on January 20, 2008, 02:24:04 PM
its called a "drone fly",

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-&p=drone%20fly%20pictures&type=
Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: Cindi on January 20, 2008, 10:58:49 PM
Ted, that was good, but there was only one site that I could gain access to.  They all came up that I did not have permission to go on the site, go figure.  Have a great and wonderful day, Cindi
Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: TwT on January 21, 2008, 12:42:31 AM
http://www.photosig.com/go/photos/view?id=2119334&forward=
Title: Re: Help Identify Please
Post by: Cindi on January 21, 2008, 08:31:27 AM
Ted, thank you, that was a great picture, amazing how people can get such good closeups eh?  Best of a wonderful day, Cindi
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