bees on asters

[spiridoula 8]

In my garden, there is a bee that is much more common on my asters than my honey bees. It's like a large fly, v shaped wings, and with orrange sides to a dark abdomen. What is it?

Lots of them

S8

 

[margob99]

Bet you it's a hover fly! I wrote a thread recently on this and Philip posted a great link to help you identify them - apparently the v-shaped wings are the give-away

http://www.uknature.co.uk/hoverflies.html


Edited to include my album link showing you some of the wierdos that appeared in my garden recently:

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/album.php?albumid=157