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Red Eye Hover Fly

Red Eye Hover Fly

Yellow and black striped color combination is almost instinctively alarming but this is a hover fly. It drinks nectar and in turn pollinates the plants and flow...
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Yellow and black striped color combination is almost instinctively alarming but this is a hover fly. It drinks nectar and in turn pollinates the plants and flowers. Only his looks mimic a bee or wasp because he has no stinger. Just a fly who likes plants.
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Canon EOS REBEL T3i

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Aperture f/6.3 ISO 100 Shutter 1/80 Focal Length 24/1

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Apr, 2016

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