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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Bacchini » Platycheirus
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Which pollinating fly, please? - Platycheirus - male
Copyright © 2007 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Which pollinating fly, please? - Platycheirus - Male
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
May 3, 2007
Gold-backed.

On Alliaria petiolata blooms.

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Which pollinating fly, please? - Platycheirus - male Which pollinating fly, please? - Platycheirus Which pollinating fly, please? - Platycheirus
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 3 May, 2007 - 8:10pm
Last updated 23 April, 2009 - 4:45pm

Moved
Moved from Syrphinae.
… Beatriz Moisset, 25 January, 2009 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

Platycheirus
In this case the male!
greetings
… Gerard Pennards, 25 January, 2009 - 8:00am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Aschiza.
Maybe in the tribe Bacchini, but not sure.
It would help if you crop these images and replace them. They would show more detail.
… Beatriz Moisset, 23 September, 2007 - 7:52am login or register to post comments

 
Good call, in more ways than one.
I used my browser to enlarge the last image, which brought to mind a recent post of what I'd called to myself a "metallic gold" syrphid. Then I found this while reviewing Bacchini:

Think we have a match? I do.
… Ron Hemberger, 23 September, 2007 - 3:35pm login or register to post comments

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