Purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea flowerhead against others soft focus behind, hoverfly in flight approaching the flower.

Cosmos bipinnatus 'Candy Stripe' flower with a hoverfly perched on it.

Rose campion, Lychnis coronaria, Hoverfly collecting nectar from flower.

Single, saucer-shaped flower of Cosmos bipinnatus Sensation Picotee with pink petals irregularly streaked with white and hoverfly on yellow centre.

Single, saucer-shaped flower of Cosmos bipinnatus Sensation Picotee with pinkish white petals irregularly edged in crimson surrounding yellow centre with hoverfly.

Poppy, Papaver rhoeas Shirley series. Hoverfly on yellow stamen of single, open flower with shadow of seedhead on petal.

Hoverfly on yellow centre of pink Cosmos bipinnatus.

Lampranthus Purple. Single flower with hoverfly alighted on centre.

Globe Thistle, Echinops bannaticus Blue globe, Spherical blue flower head with hoverfly.

Hoverfly, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies of the insect family Syrphidae on yellow centre of a pink Japanese anemone or Anemone japonica.