Hoverfly, cornflower, heaven!

Today, I took a lunchtime walk from the office to marvel at the late-season second flush of flowers on the main road nearby, where Stirling's On The Verge project has seeded the verge with a beautiful cornfield flower mix. And today, although windy was bright and sunny and that strip of flowers - red poppies, yellow corn marigolds and, as here, electric blue cornflowers, was covered in pollinating insects, mostly hoverflies and other flies, with the occasional bumblebee. I was really pleased to have another autumnal opportunity to photograph hoverflies and this photo was the best of today's bunch. I pretty sure it is a Syrphus ribesii and it is on a wonderful cornflower, a native wildflower that, other than in projects like this and some good agri-environment schemes, has been difficult to find in the Scottish countryside for some time, at least around here. More please - and I bet the hoverflies, bees and other pollinators would agree!