#allograpta

[herpsandbirds]

Hello, I was wondering if you could help me identify this strange and unusual friend that was visiting my cosmos a few weeks ago. I hope the pictures are clear enough. Found in Houston, TX.

Fly ID - SE TX, USA:

Oh yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss, this is a hoverfly, called Oblique Streaktail (Allograpta obliqua), family Syrphidae. Hoverflies that visit and pollinate flowers, as a group, are often called Flowerflies, as well.

Allograpta obliqua - Wikipedia

[luckynein]

Streaktail + ant I found while watching the ants farm aphids this morning.

[crudlynaturephotos]

[drhoz]

#2385 - Tribe Syrphini

A hoverfly larvae I found climbing over the flax during the rain. Either Allograpta (Streaktails) or Sphaerophoria (Globetails). Most hoverfly larvae in the Syrphini, and the wider subfamily, are predators of aphids, but if there were any on the flax they were probably half-drowned.

Pohokura, North Island, New Zealand

[calochortus]

Oblique streaktail (Allograpta obliqua) by Trey Wardlaw

[friendsrpbg]

P20130710-0040—Tanacetum bipinnatum w hoverfly (Allograpta sp)—RPBG-1 by John Rusk Via Flickr: Tanacetum bipinnatum—Dune Tansy. The insect is a hoverfly identified to the genus Allograpta. I am told that pictures of the head and of structures beneath the wing would be required to identify the fly to a species. Photo taken at Regional Parks Botanic Garden located in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, CA.

[crudlynaturephotos]

[luckyneinphotos]

March 25, 2023