hoverfly in flower low key.
A hoverfly visits a flower.
Hoverflies come in all shapes and sizes. Most are inconspicuous and stay under two centimetres in length, such as the small gits that look somewhat like gunflies and can often be found on dandelions or daisies.
A number of conspicuous hoverflies, such as bee flies and fop wasps, mimic hymenoptera such as wasps, bees, or bumblebees, by their strikingly bright colours, corresponding colour patterns or body hair on thorax and abdomen. Hoverflies resembling bumblebees have a hairy abdomen, species resembling wasps usually do not. Resembling other, more dangerous animals in colour, shape and/or sound is called mimicry and occurs in very many animal groups.
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