Natural History Photographs


Drenthe, the Netherlands

5 - 10 May 2009


Tanyptera atrata
Aekingerzand; 10 May 2009. Female ovipositing in dead wood.


Hybomitra lurida
Drents-Friese Woud; 7 & 9 May 2009.


Hybomitra tropica
Drents-Friese Woud; 10 May 2009.

Two males were hovering at ca. 50 cm height mostly above open
spaces in between heath plants, about level with the tallest heath twigs.


Dioctria hyalipennis
Hoogersmilde; 8 May 2009.


Dioctria oelandica
Hijkersmilde; 6 May 2009.
Hoogersmilde; 8 May 2009.


Laphria flava
Drents-Friese Woud; 9 May 2009.


Lasiopogon cinctus
Aekingerzand; 7 May 2009.
Drents-Friese Woud; 9 May 2009.


Brachyopa bicolor
Zorgvlied; 8 May 2009. Near sap runs of Oak tree.


Brachypalpus laphriformis
Zorgvlied; 8 May 2009. The fly rested on the partly rotten foot of an Oak tree trunk.


Cheilosia cf. albitarsis
Drents-Friese Woud; 9 May 2009.


Chrysotoxum cautum
Hijkersmilde; 6 May 2009. Hoogersmilde; 9 May 2009.


Volucella bombylans
Hooghalen; 5 May 2009.


Xylota segnis
Hijkersmilde; 6 May 2009.


Appendicia truncata
Drents-Friese Woud; 7 May 2009. In knee-high dry grass bordering peat bog.


Ernestia rudis
Drents-Friese Woud; 9 May 2009.



Medina spec.
Gastrolepta
anthracina
Hoogersmilde; 9 May 2009.


Gonia spec.
Drents-Friese Woud; 8 May 2009.
Gonia distinguenda
Aekingerzand; 10 May 2009.


Gymnocheta viridis
Hijkersmilde; 6 May 2009.


Phasia hemiptera
Drents-Friese Woud; 9 May 2009.


Phryno vetula
Drents-Friese Woud; 8 & 9 May 2009.


Tachina lurida
Drents-Friese Woud; 9 May 2009.


Phaonia trimaculata
Hijkersmilde; 6 May 2009.


Graphomyia maculata Eustalomyia histrio
Drents-Friese Woud; 9 May 2009.