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Topic: Video recording as a more versatile way to identify species. |
AngieT
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Views: 4661
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 11:08 pm Subject: My way of photographing them |
Excuse me for adding to this conversation so late.
As a very amateur recorder I could never hope to get a moving picture of any insect! So, what I do is, if a hoverfly is happy to be caught in a jam ... |
Topic: Plants for Hovers? |
AngieT
Replies: 1
Views: 1361
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:28 pm Subject: Plants for Hovers? |
Last autumn my neighbour asked if he could trim back my lilac tree that was overhanging his garden. I agreed, went off to work, and came back to discover that not only had he cut the lilac down to th ... |
Topic: Book "Britain's hoverflies" |
AngieT
Replies: 6
Views: 10273
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 11:26 am Subject: Is it still available? |
Reading M. Mille's message, I thought that maybe it's time I bought the book. Do you still have any copies or will I have to get it from Amazon or elsewhere? I would like the authors to get some mon ... |
Topic: Happy New Year |
AngieT
Replies: 0
Views: 4927
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 6:30 pm Subject: Happy New Year |
Happy New Year to all you hoverfly enthusiasts, and I hope you all see some wonderful insects this year. (And manage to get some wonderful photos of them as well!) |
Topic: Not many here |
AngieT
Replies: 6
Views: 6132
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Forum: Submit records Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 8:14 pm Subject: Not many here |
This year my garden has a magnificent ragwort plant in flower (and a smaller one flowering as well), loads of buddleia flowers, long grass, stagnant water in a bowl, brambles in flower... in short, ev ... |
Topic: Photobombing Hoverfly |
AngieT
Replies: 1
Views: 4479
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 11:22 am Subject: Photobombing Hoverfly |
http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a564/angelathorne/PhotobombingHoverflyApril2014_zps05a51233.jpg
You wait ages for one, then another one comes along and pushes into the picture! |
Topic: Feelers |
AngieT
Replies: 1
Views: 4406
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 11:03 am Subject: Feelers |
Excuse my ignorance, but can someone please tell me why hoverflies all seem to have such short antennae?
Most of the insects I have come across have much longer ones, presumably for a reason. (And ... |
Topic: Many already |
AngieT
Replies: 1
Views: 3971
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 5:46 pm Subject: Many already |
Hello all.
I am glad to report that this year I have already had a lot of hovers in the garden. I haven't been able to identify most of them, and my camera has gone a bit odd so I have no in-focus ... |
Topic: Speedy visitor! |
AngieT
Replies: 3
Views: 7435
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 11:21 pm Subject: Speedy hover's photo |
Hopefully this will be the photo of the speedy hover as mentioned in my previous message...
http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a564/angelathorne/Hoveronthenewflower10-8-2013_zps8f0aa108.jpg |
Topic: Speedy visitor! |
AngieT
Replies: 3
Views: 7435
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 11:47 pm Subject: Speedy visitor! |
I'd just bought a flowering plant and put it by the back door. A small hoverfly was on its way past, going to the fuchsia in the hanging basket, and I could see it almost screech to a halt and change ... |
Topic: Hover romance |
AngieT
Replies: 2
Views: 6225
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 7:13 pm Subject: Hover romance |
Unfortunately Roger, I haven't seen them again after that one romantic encounter. We don't have so many flowers left now for them to be attracted to the garden, but I will keep an eye on the few rema ... |
Topic: Hover romance |
AngieT
Replies: 2
Views: 6225
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 12:20 pm Subject: Hover romance |
I don't know how hovers are doing generally this year, but we seem to have had quite a few in the garden over the last two or three days. My most interesting sighting was two Volucella zonarias, not ... |
Topic: large overfly in garden today 21.7.13 |
AngieT
Replies: 16
Views: 25984
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 4:05 pm Subject: Link to the horsefly |
Aha! Lovely beast. This is a link to Jean's Back Garden Moths picture (not the writing):
http://back-garden-moths.co.uk/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=60285&d=1374938771 |
Topic: large overfly in garden today 21.7.13 |
AngieT
Replies: 16
Views: 25984
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:04 am Subject: large overfly in garden today 21.7.13 |
Any chance of getting one of the photos of this onto the website? Having read the thread, I am fascinated to see it! (I have always thought that horseflies look marvellous, despite their horrible li ... |
Topic: Should we close membership? |
AngieT
Replies: 11
Views: 14648
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Forum: General discussion Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 1:07 pm Subject: Should we close membership? |
Hello there.
How are you getting on with the spam now? There seems to be nothing unwanted on the site, but is that because they've stopped or is it because of all your hard work? |
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