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This handsome bee-mimicking robber fly has caught a smaller fly for dinner. Happy fly / poor fly !
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A demure little katydid nymph, perched on a buttercup.
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There are lots of mayfly nymphs in one of our creeks now. Here's one resting its chin on the edge of an underwater leaf and daydreaming.
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Abstract with grass stem.
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Just in time for holiday video-watching, Hoopla now has season 10 of Doc Martin!
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Just in time for holiday video-watching, Hoopla now has season 10 of Doc Martin!
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Just in time for holiday video-watching, Hoopla now has season 10 of Doc Martin!
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Just in time for holiday video-watching, Hoopla now has season 10 of Doc Martin!
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A tachinid fly perched on pussytoes (Antennaria).
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Seed heads of redtop grass.
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A poor little tephritid fly with crumpled wings. He crawled onto my hand and hung around a while. He couldn't fly, so I tucked him into what I thought would be a safe place outside.
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A poor little tephritid fly with crumpled wings. He crawled onto my hand and hung around a while. He couldn't fly, so I tucked him into what I thought would be a safe place outside.
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A poor little tephritid fly with crumpled wings. He crawled onto my hand and hung around a while. He couldn't fly, so I tucked him into what I thought would be a safe place outside.
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A poor little tephritid fly with crumpled wings. He crawled onto my hand and hung around a while. He couldn't fly, so I tucked him into what I thought would be a safe place outside.
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A poor little tephritid fly with crumpled wings. He crawled onto my hand and hung around a while. He couldn't fly, so I tucked him into what I thought would be a safe place outside.
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A slender tachinid fly sunning itself on a leaf.
#fly #flies #FlyFriday #tachinidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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You would think that a bone-dry 99 F (37 C) day wouldn't be the best time to shoot sparks at creosote-soaked railroad ties. Apparently Norfolk-Southern (the company that owns the rails) thought different yesterday. The local volunteer fire department is dealing with the resulting fires.
I hear from my son that the railroad is still smoldering, and is so hot that the interior of a car becomes noticeably hotter when driving over it.
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A little dolichopodid fly came to watch me, and brought a snack.
"Watch doin' mister? Takin' pitchers?"
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A little Condylostylus taking a break from hunting, casually blowing bubbles from both ends. Notice the translucent part of the abdomen. Are those eggs in there?
#fly #flies #FlyFriday #dolichopodidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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A handsome male scorpionfly sitting in the sun on a blade of grass.
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Apologies for the poor pictures, but here's a little bee-mimicking robber fly, after and before catching a tiny bee for dinner. I followed this wily hunter around for quite a while, and he wasn't pleased with my interference so he didn't let me get very close.
#fly #flies #FlyFriday #asilidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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A beautiful crane fly, hanging inside a sunlit bush. (This is who I was trying to photograph when I took the picture of the syrphid fly I posted yesterday. I recommend sticking your head under a bush occasionally. There's a whole other world in there.)
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A little harvestman sits at the center of a fiddlehead's spiral, like a minotaur at the center of a maze.
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A male scorpionfly sampling some leftover cat food.
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A male scorpionfly sampling some leftover cat food.
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A male scorpionfly sampling some leftover cat food.
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A male scorpionfly sampling some leftover cat food.
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A male scorpionfly sampling some leftover cat food.
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A mantis egg case, ready to release hordes of cute baby mantises when the weather gets warmer. These particular valiant warriors will defend a blueberry bush against insect invaders.
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Yellow cat-face or buttercup? You decide, but it has nice whiskers either way.