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        By effort and slowly the hover-fly creeps out of its shell. After this, its skin needs to dry. | 
| Joy of Hovering | Wrong Bride | An Egg | A Typical Larva | |
| In the Colony of the Ants | The Chrysalis | A Birth Starts | First View | |
| Hatching | Unfolding Wings | A Young Hover-fly | A Fast Fly | 
Photograph by José Verkest, text by Maria Pfeifer  |