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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Unknown Flying Insect
From: leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:08:55 -0700
References: <205dba9c-e84d-7d90-4be1-502ab53486b8@lighttube.net>
 
A syrphid fly of some sort I am sure.? Perhaps related to this guy?

File:Syrphid Fly (Palpada sp.) (7558922774).jpg - Wikimedia Commons 
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syrphid_Fly_(Palpada_sp.)_(7558922774).jpg>

Aram

On 7/23/2021 11:31 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> I checked the Buddleia this morning, carrying my Fuji X-T2 and a 
> Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 135/3.5 lens plus an Olympus 40cm closeup 
> converter lens. I got one image that pleased me, but, after examining 
> 1000 online images, I have not identified the winged subject.? Perhaps 
> someone will recognize it.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210723-DSCF2442-Enhanced.JPG.html
>  
>
>
> My keeper percentage using manual focus is disappointing.
>
-- 
Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
would ever have dared dream.?
    James D. Watson
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