Today's friend, is this cheerful hoverfly! Surely in the Syrphus genus, and likely a female S. ribesii - the common banded hoverfly! I say likely, as there are three main Syrphus species of hoverfly found in the UK that are very hard to distinguish, luckily this lady has a distinctive yellow hind femur or I'd have no hopes of an ID 😊

Their strange slug-like larvae feed on aphids, helping to keep plants healthy, and the adults feed on nectar while helping to pollinate flowers 🥰

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Have been trying to get into the habit of posting one bug picture a week to Instagram so I figured I might as well post them here too!

This is one of my fav pics! Oedemera nobilis (false oil beetle) and Oedemera lurida chilling on a flower, two different species of beetles in the same family just vibing

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hmmm
gif tho?
lil ants
doin their thing
anyone know what kind these are?
there's a long trail like a lil ant highway leading from a doug fir to an alder where they are goin up and down
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