A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Eristalinus taeniops
Yellow hoverfly with vertical stripes on eyes and horizontal brown stripes on abdomen. It never landed so this series is in flight.
Hovering around Lemon and Pomelo trees in orchard. "Portugal, Spain and around the Mediterranean, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, North Africa, The Canary Islands, The Caucasus, Eastern parts of Afrotropical region to South Africa, Nepal Northern Pakistan and Northern India, Iran. Introduced to Parts of North America (California and Florida)." - Wikipedia
Manual focus on a moving object. Ugh, I need practice but was happy that I could see details enough for ID :)
Spotted on Feb 22, 2012
Submitted on Feb 22, 2012
15 Comments
Thanks Courtney and Nopayahnah!
Great shots with your manual focus!
Great shots Cindy!
Thank you Antonio. I took quite a few shots to get these!
Cindy this one is a fantastic spotting,i never been able to make a decent photo of a flying insect,amazing,congratulations
Thank you :)
Wow, fantastic pictures Cindy!
Wow, just wow!
Very nice!
Thanks Sergio and Lars!
Brutal
woo-hooo...nice one, Cindy!
I know how hard it is to get those pictures, so... congratulations, amazing photos.
Thank you Galantliv! I just finished uploading (issues today) so there are now 6 photos.
Great captures! The last one is my favourite :)