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A bright orange insect about 1.5cm long with huge purple eyes, a rather broad flat abdomen and a deep blue spot on the thorax. Flies with little wings.
Bushes in a tropical rainforest nature reserve
this here too: http://peacockroyal.blogspot.com/2010/06...
I hate leaving things so unfinished and blurry - my best try is still: hover fly
after some digging, I came up with this: http://frank.itlab.us/photo_essays/singa...
yeah, I know its not too much... :(
here, RoySim captured the same sp. : http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/632...
I've seen this one in two or three different places in Singapore. I'm surprised no one has taken a picture and positively identified it yet, at least not that I can find on the net by searching "diptera syrphidae hoverfly singapore". Will just keep searching... or waiting!
Looks like flies or Diptera, with only one pair of wings in the Family Syrphidae. (Wasps and bees have two pairs ).
Thanks Marta! I have never heard of a hover fly before! Thanks for being the first to follow my spottings!
I would say is a type of hover fly. I have a sighting that is a marmalade hover fly and looks alike, although my sighting is in Belgium and yours in Singapore so the species may be different.
Spotted on May 28, 2011
Submitted on Jun 27, 2011
