Movie 2.

Pursuit of an 8 mm diameter bead, camera 1 view The movie shows an example of a male E. tenax (pink circle, which becomes purple during the proximal stage) pursuing an 8 mm diameter bead (black circle) programmed to move at 1 m/s. Pursuit start is highlighted with a yellow star. This pursuit is also shown in Figure 2B.

Hoverfly (Eristalis tenax) pursuit of artificial targets

Malin Thyselius, Yuri Ogawa, Richard Leibbrandt, Trevor J. Wardill, Paloma T. Gonzalez-Bellido, and Karin Nordström

Journal of Experimental Biology 2023. 226:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.244895