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Bee_on_flower_for_honey Episyrphus balteatus,Marmalade Hoverfly Click/tap to enlarge

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  1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
    Ferdy Christant
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    @priyaroy: You requested the manual creation of species "bee". This is wrong in 2 ways:

    - A "bee" is not a species, it is a family of thousands of species. You need to know which one it is for identification
    - Manual species creation is only needed if automatic species searching does not work

    And by the way, that is likely a hover fly, not a bee :)     Posted 11 years ago
    1. View priyaroy76's profile
      priyaroy76
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      May be but I had seen this insect to have honey at the moment of capturing photo that is why I have mention it to be bee , ok above all Thank you very much for your valued opinion and expecting more from your end for future :) Posted 11 years ago
      1. View WildFlower's profile
        WildFlower
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        Honey is produced by the bees. They feed on nectar from the flowers as many other insects do. These big eyes are characteristic of hoverflies. This is the marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus). Posted 11 years ago, modified 11 years ago

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The Marmalade Hover Fly

"Episyrphus balteatus", sometimes called the marmalade hoverfly, is a relatively small hoverfly of the Syrphidae family, widespread throughout the Palaearctic region, which covers Europe, North Asia, and North Africa.

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Similar species: True Flies
Species identified by WildFlower
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Uploaded Apr 10, 2014. Captured Apr 5, 2014 07:01.
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  • 144mm