All About Hoverflies!

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An Eristalis tenax hoverfly atop an attractive artificial flower
Hoverfly eggs look like grains of rice under a microscope!
After hatching from their eggs, some hoverfly larvae, like the one pictured here, feed on aphids
After the larval stage, hoverflies transform into these small, black lumps called pupae
Adult E. tenax hoverflies
Food for my hoverflies: ground pollen and sugar (dyed with red food coloring, as required by my experiments) sprinkled atop cotton soaked in diluted honey
A cage for housing hoverflies
More hoverfly cages

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