Super pollenator (In Explore 16th October 2024)

            One of nature's little wonders......

You can see this marvellously equipped, colourful fellow is pretty small by those tiny buddleia florets he’s standing on. A type of hover fly Rhingia campestris perfectly designed for all the nooks and crannies. That feeding pouch membrane isn’t always visible. I have quite a few clear photographs like this one and, looking closely it seems a tongue / feeding tube emerges from his throat from directly below his eye - you can just make it out in the photo, and once deployed it can be expanded into that pouch, rather like a vacuum bag I feel. That hole in the end of his snout is perhaps used to fill it or as some sort of deflation valve. It’s not a stabilising membrane as it isn’t always expanded when the tongue / tube is fully deployed.

Taken on: August 29, 2024

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Camera: OM Digital Solutions OM-1MarkII, f/13.0, 1/100 sec, 90mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	OM Digital Solutions OM-1MarkII
Lens:	OM 90mm F3.5
Aperture:	f/13.0
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	90mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	On, Fired
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Contrast:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Topaz Photo AI 3.2.0 (Macintosh)
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