passing on the genes

A few minutes after capturing Monday's photo, I spotted what I thought was a common wasp dancing among the leaves overhanging a small area of decking in my back garden.

It turned out to be a banded hoverfly.  Her behaviour was fascinating; searching out the perfect spot to deposit her eggs, which she then did at the base of a leaf.  At least I'm assuming they were eggs and that she was indeed a she!

Fujifilm X-H2, TTArtisans 100mm f2.8 2X macro lens
1/200th of a second at f5.6, ISO 400
handheld

For even more wonders of nature, just click below to see what (if anything) we managed to see on our October nature stroll: