Plants and animals of Pointfield

Distinctive large hoverfly with a white band across the upper abdomen and black wing patches that align with the black abdominal band. In the male, the white band on tergite 2 can often be darker. Both sexes have an obvious yellow-orange scutellum (at rear of thorax) that immediately distinguishes this species from Volucella pellucens, the only other similar hoverfly.