Thick-legged Hover Fly Syritta pipiens
Another fequent visitor in our garden is the very small Thick-legged Hover Fly. It is easy to identify the little devil, for it has a curiously thickened hindleg with a red spot on it! From a distant it looks very plain indeed, but its real beauty unfolds in close up. In the USA known as the Big-legged Syrphid.