Scaeva pyrastri on Common chicory

Old image (2006) taken some place in Denmark. I was somewhat surprised to find it had been used in a "spiritual"(?) book about flowers, to illustrate Chicory:
Mary Ann Antenucci (2013) Essences of Nature: Botanical Remedies for Growth and Empowerment. (page 140)
https://books.google.nl/books?id=WcwCAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA140
In the book it is referenced to be taken from my uploads at Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halvemaanzweefvlieg_wit_(Scaeva_pyrastri)_04.jpg

comments (5)

Ferdy Christant

Lion

How cool that so many of your images are used in such various ways, and thank you for being so generous with your licenses. Posted 4 years ago, modified 4 years ago
1. Pudding4brains
  
  Lion
  
  Frankly, of quite a few of these (like this very one) I had no idea myself. Googled "Pudding4brains" just for fun yesterday and found some 3-4 ones previously unknown to me :o)
  Grand total of search hits was something like 11.000 that google reduces to a mere 18 or so (I didn't bother clicking for more results), but in these 18 results were some 8-9 that I had no idea about...
  Strangely, it is mostly old and very mediocre images that seem to get usage ... go figure ... Posted 4 years ago, modified 4 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    So you use that nickname everywhere? Even if you do, it's possible your images are used even more widely in cases where there's no attribution. Posted 4 years ago
  2. 1. Pudding4brains
      
      Lion
      
      I've been using that nick forever (since the 90's), most notably for the likes of Wikimedia commons, though I've eventually changed it to my real name a few years back when they threw a "join all accounts from all wikimedia platforms into one" party or some such. Used it for a photo site that doesn't exist anymore too (Wild About The World), so yes, changes are that people have been picking up images with that name here and there and decided to supply "credit" to it, even if the license makes that totally unnecessary.
      Much harder to find the usage without credits of course, but that's fine - I don't _need_ to know :o) Posted 4 years ago
    2. 1. Ferdy Christant
        
        Lion
        
        Perhaps one day I'll add a filter, so that similar to Flickr, you get this "pool" of CC/PD images. Probably most in that pool would be yours hehe.
        
        In the meanwhile I'll let you chew on these 250,000 plates:
        https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/albums
        
        ...at risk of course that you already knew. Posted 4 years ago

The Pied Hover Fly

"Scaeva pyrastri" is a European species of hoverfly. It is a large distinctive fly with three pairs of white comma markings on the abdomen, these are yellow on "Scaeva selenitica". Adults are common visitors to flowers. The larvae feed on aphids.

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Similar species: True Flies

Species identified by Pudding4brains