Eniworld

[enismirdal]

There are some recurring themes in my life.

One of them is ending up perched precariously on a chair, feeding honey off my finger to a random insect that is sitting halfway up the wall.

Today, the insect is Anne-Marie. Anne-Marie is a female Chrysotoxum species, probably C. festivum. She is somewhat camera shy, so I've been unable to get a proper photo of her so far (not least because the light in here is very bad and it's hard to take photos of an insect sitting in a glass or on the ceiling). But she looks rather like this.

As she was a bit dopey and hungry, she was very happy to munch honey off my finger. I'll let her out tomorrow so she can go and do...whatever hoverflies do in January...

Comments

[nienna-weeper.livejournal.com]

You are a born entomologist.

Aw...

[lene-de.livejournal.com]

LOL! I never thought of hover-flies as camera shy but I guess I'm just biased. You're far braver than me I'd be afraid of getting stung.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Oh, hoverflies never have stings! They're completely harmless. But can fly quite fast, and as their bodies are often flat it can be hard to find a good angle to take the photo.

I let her go at lunchtime yesterday so she could find some pollen and lay some eggs. :)