Paul Reeves Photography: Small Black Drone Fly (Genus Eumerus)

NATURE - Arthropods - Hoverflies

Small Black Drone Fly (Genus Eumerus)

Taylor Creek Park, Toronto, ON.

May 25th, 2019. (6500)

American Hoverfly  | Bare-eyed Mimic Fly  | Black-shouldered Drone Fly  | Broad-banded Hornet Fly  | Common Drone Fly
Common Thick-legged Fly  | Eastern Band-winged Hoverfly  | Eastern Calligrapher  | Eastern Catkin Fly
Emarginate Smoothtail  | European Drone Fly  | Four-lined Hornet Fly  | Globetail Hoverfly  | Hairy-eyed Mimic Fly
Hornhand Sedgesitter  | Long-nosed Swamp Fly  | Many-tufted Sedgesitter  | Margined Calligrapher  | Narcissus Bulb Fly
Narrow-headed Marsh Fly  | Oblique Stripetail  | Rat-tail Maggot Fly  | Sedgesitter  | Shiny Bog Fly  | Short-haired Leafwalker
Small Black Drone Fly  | Thick-legged Hoverfly  | Transverse-banded Flower Fly  | Tufted Globetail
Wasp-like Falsehorn  | Yellow-haired Falsehorn  | Yellow-legged Flower Fly

There is no common English name for this Genus of hoverfly and the name I have given it is purely descriptive. There are 281 known species worldwide.

Small Black Drone Fly

Small Black Drone Fly