Hover Fly at Kioloa, NSW
Identification history
| Melangyna sp. | 8 Aug 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Apiformes (informal group) | 6 Jul 2020 | Marg |
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User's notes
There were easily around 60 or more of these bees on one flower. Then I discovered every yellow or yellow-gold flower had bees as well, so there would have been well over a hundred altogether.
1 comment
Marg
wrote:
14 Jul 2020
Thanks, Jackie. Hoverflies! I've never come across these before. No wonder when they took to the air they looked like a squadron of tiny helicopters.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.380325-35.542764
- Altitude 10.4m
- Places Kioloa, NSW
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 5 Jul 2020 11:21 AM Recorded on
- Marg Recorded by
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Collections
Marg South Coast NatureMapr Melangyna sp. (genus) Hover flies (Syrphidae) True flies (Diptera) Insects
Species information
- Melangyna sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Hover Fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1364m Recorded at altitude
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