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A recently-emerged cicada, resting on a honeysuckle stem.
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A handsome greenbottle fly (Lucilia), dressed in his best, shiniest, exoskeleton, out on the town, looking for a mate.
#fly #flies #calliphoridae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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A little tachinid fly (possibly Cryptomeigenia) sitting on a leaf. I love the shape and color of the eyes.
#fly #flies #diptera #tachinidae #insects #arthropods #photography
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The beavers have been busy in our creek! They've built four dams now, each of them a lovely bit of engineering.
The frogs are enjoying this growing wetland. There are thousands of tadpoles wriggling about. Possibly they're hatching from eggs inside the jelly-like blobs we see in the mud beside the creek?
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Another bee-mimicking robber fly. This one has caught a beetle.
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A tachinid fly perched on pussytoes (Antennaria).
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A slender tachinid fly sunning itself on a leaf.
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An ambush bug on a purple aster. I hope I haven't posted this before, but its one of my favorite pictures. These asters are in bloom now.
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A fly I haven't seen before (possibly Hemyda aurata?) This poor guy was missing its left hind leg. The whole time I was there, the fly kept jabbing its abdomen at the leaf. A female depositing eggs? A confused male? I would have guessed that those naughty bits are some kind of clampy thing that belongs to a male.
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I came across this old photo of a handsome tachinid fly that I never identified. I love the stepped geometric black and white pattern on his abdomen. He's sitting on a wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia).
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A baby ambush bug sitting on a blackberry. I came close to popping the berry into my mouth, but noticed the speck of white just in time.
#bug #bugs #AmbushBug #hemiptera #nature #photography #foraging
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A handsome "swift feather legged fly" (Trichopoda pennipes). See his elegant fringes?
Dipterists definitely missed a good naming opportunity here. He should have been a "Fast Feather Footed Fly."
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A female Gymnoclytia on a daisy. The females are black and white. The males are brown and orange.
#fly #flies #tachinidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography #pollinators #flowers #FlowersOfMastodon
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A bristly tachinid fly visits a purple aster. Flies are underappreciated pollinators.
#fly #flies #tachinidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #nature #photography #macrophotography #plants #pollinators #sunshine
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@MikePalumbo
Many years ago I read this great biography of Houdini by Kenneth Silverman. One thing that sticks with me is the book's description of Houdini's interaction with William Hope #Hodgson, a writer whose work I really like, but who seems to be a jerk who (for fun) manipulated Houdini into a humiliating situation on-stage during a performance. -
A very bristly little fingertip tachinid for #FlyFriday.
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