Hoverflies are some of my favourite insects,their slow drone on a warm day,beautiful colours and aerobatic displays always attract my attention.Their capacity to hover and fly backwards is amazing.They are also good pollinators and devourers of aphids.These are some of the ones I have seen and identified;
Platycheirus rosarum
Volucella pellucans
Leucozona laternaria
Scavea pyrastia(Hoverfly at Bennetsbridge)
Sericomyia silentis 
(Helophilus pendulus)(Male) also called the Sun fly because it like to bask in sunlight.
Leucozona lucorum
Episyrphus balteatus. This one is also called the Marmalade hover fly as it has extra orangy bits ! it is a migrant and I have seen it from Jan-Dec if the weather is mild.
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