{"id":5256,"date":"2014-07-14T06:59:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T10:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2014-07-14T06:59:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T10:59:37","slug":"hoverfly-in-grass-pink-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=5256","title":{"rendered":"Hoverfly in Grass Pink Orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last Thursday I attended a program on dragonflies and butterflies at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve at Laudholm Farm in Wells, Maine. We netted a few interesting moths and butterflies…including a Snowberry Clearwing Moth…and after the program I wandered down to the boardwalk through the mini-bog that my wife Carol discovered earlier this summer. I had gotten good photos of the Grass Pink Orchids there earlier in the week, but I wanted to try for better shots of the Pink Pagonia, the other common bog orchid in Southern Maine. Still I could not resist a few more shots of Grass Pink…especially when I caught this Hoverfly visiting. There seem to be several species of Hoverfly here in Southern Maine…or else the species is very variable in size. I see all sizes, from very tiny (smaller than this one), to big brutes that over in openings and over trails in the forest 2\/3rs the size of a Bumble Bee. <\/p>\n

Sony Alpha NEX 5T with the ZEISS Touit 50mm f2.8 macro. Aperture preferred at f11 for depth of field. 1\/250th @ ISO 100. Processed in Snapseed on my tablet. Cropped slightly for scale and composition.<\/p>\n

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