Wald-Engelwurz
This species is polyvoltin, with up to three generations per year. Flight times last from April to September. Adults feed by grazing on anemophilous pollen grazed from surface of leaves. However these hoverflies rarely visits also flowers of various plants, for example "Corylus avellana", "Rubus idaeus", "Euphorbia cyparissias", "Aegopodium podagraria", "Angelica sylvestris", "Heracleum sphondylium", "Cirsium arvense" and "Crataegus" species. They also eat honey dew from aphids.