Hoverflies love lilies

[Two_Sheds]

Wow!
23 hoverflies on the one lily ... and I have 6 lilies in flower, each of them smothered in hoverflies, with dozens more trapped in the plastic greenhouses

[Alice]

Wow - it seems to be the year of the hoverfly.
My whole garden is moving with them, every flower is covered with them.
I can't see any aphids so don't know what the attraction is.

The sad thing is when I leave my conservatory door and windows open - and I have to - they swarm in there but can't find their way back out. I rescue dozens every day but find hundreds dead. Really upsetting but I don't know what to do. I can't put insect screen on all the windows - there's about 2 dozen.

[Tam]

I have never experienced so many hoverflies - it really is a plague ! Poor little things will most likely end up as part of a swallow's meal as other kinds of flies have been far less numerous this year so far.

[BFG]

Nice photo!

Hoverflies are cool. They look like pilots with their big goggle eyes.

I watched one get munched by a damsel fly on a branch a foot away from me a few weeks ago. Shame for it, but the damsel fly looked like he enjoyed it.

[rustylady]

Loads of hoverflies here too, and ladybirds. As to why the lack of aphids, maybe our friends have already been busy eating.