Hoverflies have barely flown in to my blog posts this year. There was a new-to-me species in August (Hoverfly: Melangyna umbellatarum, 3 August), and a hoverfly larva starred in a short video in October (Lucky, unlucky, 16 October) but that’s about the extent of their involvement. I have seen hoverflies, of course, though I often struggle to identify them. Luckily, the Xanthogramma pedissequum shown below is one of the easier species to name, and it fits perfectly in this countdown.