Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae: Toxomerus marginatus
Common Name: flower fly
Country: USA
State/District: DC
County: n/a
Date: 8 July 2001
Photographer: D. S. Kjar
Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location: Georgetown University Ecology Laboratory Butterfly Garden
Keywords: A brown fly flower fly Forest Ecology GU pollination pollinator yellow fly Additional Information:
This female of Toxomerus marginatus is consuming pollen of Blanket Flower, Gaillardia puchella (Asteraceae).
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