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Description:

Small, flying inset. Two large eyes. Brown and yellow body. Broad first segment on backmost legs.

1 Species ID Suggestions

BugEric
BugEric 9 years ago
Thick-legged Hover Fly
Syritta pipiens Species Syritta pipiens - BugGuide.Net


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3 Comments

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago

This one has unusually large legs. the hoverfly looks similar except for that. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/794...

AlexanderStein
AlexanderStein 12 years ago

It doesn't look like this guy could hover, at least not as well as the hoverflies could.

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 12 years ago

Could be a hover fly...could you comment on the way he flew? - hover flies dart about unlike common house flies.

AlexanderStein
Spotted by
AlexanderStein

Eugene, Oregon, USA

Spotted on Sep 24, 2011
Submitted on Dec 27, 2011

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