Close up Detail of a Snouted Hoverfly (Genus Rhingia) Using its Long ‘Snout’ to feed from a Single Bluebell Flower Head (Hyacinthoides non-scripta).

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This Snouted Hoverfly (Genus Rhingia) was visiting the individual flowers of the common English Bluebell flower (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) on the edge of woodland. The larvae of this species breed in cow dung and emerge from April to October This plant is just one individual amongst a whole host of Bluebells growing beneath oak woodland on Torrington Commons near the River Torridge in North Devon.

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Size: 5163px × 3686px
Location: Great Torrington, Devon, England.
Photo credit: © John Insull / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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