RHH's photos with the keyword: hoverfly

Photographed on Rose Hill in Manito City Park, Spokane, one of the most beautiful rose gardens I've seen.

This is another version of a photo I already have posted. The photo was taken near Tete Jaune Cache in British Columbia where we were hunting for Lady's Slippers. Both the Hoverfly and the Butterfly were around the flower which I never identified and I managed to get several pictures with them both in focus. The Hoverfly is a Syrphus species which I have not been able to identify further and the butterfly is the Northern Crescent, Phyciodes cocyta.

In Explore July 3, 2010, #374. We were on some back roads near Tete Jaune Cache in British Columbia looking for Yellow Lady's Slippers. While searching the edge of the woods I came on this butterfly with the hoverfly buzzing around near the same flower. I snapped a bunch of pictures hoping to catch both of them in focus and was fortunate enough, when I could see them on the computer, to find that I had gotten both of them. After doing some searching, I came to the conclusion that this is the Pearly Crescent (Phyciodes tharos), but as Upupa4me suggests, the markings more resemble the Northern Crescent (Phyciodes cocyta). Fizgig has confirmed that this is a Northern Crescent. More photos and a diary of our trip thus far can be found at: ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2010/07/british-col...