More male hoverflies

Unless they is invasive speciesor a lookalike, they're all over one rose bush containing lady beetle nymphs, pupa,and aphids.

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morpheme

Lion

The latest from BugGuide says that the North American population has been found to be a separate species from the European ones and renamed Scaeva affinis
"Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Previously thought to represent a population of Scaeva pyrastri (Linnaeus 1758), which was found to be a Palearctic species" Posted 2 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  Excellent, that solves this puzzle. It's especially confusing because GBIF (a site I take very serious) shows the European species occurring in the US whilst iNaturalist does not. Posted 2 years ago

The White-bowed smoothwing

Eyes with dense hair; upper 2/3 of male eye "with extensive area of almost uniformly enlarged facets; abdomen dark, with six white, curved stripes. Larvae are light green with a white dorsal longitudinal stripe. Usually with abdominal bands, but sometimes also in dark forms.

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Similar species: True Flies

Species identified by Ferdy Christant