Calgary Insect Pollinators Guide

This is a beginning guide to Calgary's insect pollinators. The goal is to highlight some of the many insect pollinators you may encounter in the city and through participating in the Calgary Pollinator Count (see ...more ↓

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Hairy-eyed Flower Fly ¹
Syrphus torvus

Tufted Globetail ²
Sphaerophoria contigua

Meadow Flies ³
Chrysotoxum

Halfbands ⁴
Melangyna

Bristleside Flies ⁴
Parasyrphus

Oblique Streaktail ⁵
Allograpta obliqua

Black-horned Smoothtail ⁶
Epistrophe grossulariae

Dasysyrphus intrudens ⁶

Common Loopwing Aphideater ⁶
Lapposyrphus lapponicus

Black-legged Gossamer ⁶
Megasyrphus laxus

White-bowed Smoothwing ⁷
Scaeva affinis

Black-margined Flower Fly ⁸
Syrphus opinator

Common Flower Fly ⁹
Syrphus ribesii

Black-footed Globetail ⁴
Sphaerophoria philanthus

Violaceous Globetail ¹⁰
Sphaerophoria pyrrhina

Large-tailed Aphideater ¹¹
Eupeodes volucris

Eupeodes americanus ¹²

Western Aphideater ¹³
Eupeodes fumipennis

Edited by Mindi Summers, Arminty Clarke, Michaela Seal, Sarah Vermaak, and katitran55, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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Calgary Insect Pollinators Guide

Hairy-eyed Flower Fly 1 Syrphus torvus

Tufted Globetail 2 Sphaerophoria contigua

Meadow Flies 3 Chrysotoxum

Halfbands 4 Melangyna

Bristleside Flies 4 Parasyrphus

Oblique Streaktail 5 Allograpta obliqua

Black-horned Smoothtail 6 Epistrophe grossulariae

Dasysyrphus intrudens 6

Common Loopwing Aphideater 6 Lapposyrphus lapponicus

Black-legged Gossamer 6 Megasyrphus laxus

White-bowed Smoothwing 7 Scaeva affinis

Black-margined Flower Fly 8 Syrphus opinator

Common Flower Fly 9 Syrphus ribesii

Black-footed Globetail 4 Sphaerophoria philanthus

Violaceous Globetail 10 Sphaerophoria pyrrhina

Large-tailed Aphideater 11 Eupeodes volucris

Eupeodes americanus 12

Western Aphideater 13 Eupeodes fumipennis