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A mayfly. Aren't you a little early? I love the big balloony eyes.
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Here's a sad story with a little bit of hope at the end. I drive through this place twice a day, going to and from work, but I didn't know anything about its history:
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Cicadas in art, and on Emily Graslie:
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Coralberries (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus). These are small, hard berries that are very abundant. If you grab a cluster it falls apart immediately into a handful of magenta BB-sized berries. Under the thin skin is white flesh with the texture of a bean seed.
The berries aren't edible by humans. The small flowers attract a lot of insects (especially bees) in the summer.
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Privet berries (Ligustrum) in the sunshine. This is another non-native plant that's spread widely here. Its small white flowers smell wonderful, and birds like to eat the berries.
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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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Did she or didn't she? She's not telling.
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A mosquito, gathering a blood meal from a knuckle of the hand that wasn't holding the camera. I admire her white tufts and bristly antennae.
#fly #flies #mosquitos #culicidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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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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A beautiful little Condylostylus, watching for prey.
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A beautiful little Condylostylus: a fearsome jewel.
#fly #flies #dolichopodidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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A Tiger Bee Fly (Xenox tigrinus) peeps in to see what I'm doing. As I was photographing her, I could see her antennae swiveling around, sniffing me.
#fly #flies #bombyliidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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A Tiger Bee Fly (Xenox tigrinus) peeps in to see what I'm doing. As I was photographing her, I could see her antennae swiveling around, sniffing me.
#fly #flies #bombyliidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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A Tiger Bee Fly (Xenox tigrinus) peeps in to see what I'm doing. As I was photographing her, I could see her antennae swiveling around, sniffing me.
#fly #flies #bombyliidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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A Tiger Bee Fly (Xenox tigrinus) peeps in to see what I'm doing. As I was photographing her, I could see her antennae swiveling around, sniffing me.
#fly #flies #bombyliidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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A Tiger Bee Fly (Xenox tigrinus) peeps in to see what I'm doing. As I was photographing her, I could see her antennae swiveling around, sniffing me.
#fly #flies #bombyliidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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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).
#fly #flies #tachinidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography #nature
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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 beautiful little Condylostylus for #FlyFriday.
#fly #flies #dolichopodidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #nature #photography
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A very snooty planthopper. Possibly Rhynchomitra?
#bug #bugs #planthoppers #hemiptera #insects #athropods #photography
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A very snooty planthopper. Possibly Rhynchomitra?
#bug #bugs #planthoppers #hemiptera #insects #athropods #photography
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A very snooty planthopper. Possibly Rhynchomitra?
#bug #bugs #planthoppers #hemiptera #insects #athropods #photography
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A very snooty planthopper. Possibly Rhynchomitra?
#bug #bugs #planthoppers #hemiptera #insects #athropods #photography
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A very snooty planthopper. Possibly Rhynchomitra?
#bug #bugs #planthoppers #hemiptera #insects #athropods #photography
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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."
#fly #flies #tachinidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography
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These are terrible pictures, but this is the first one of these I've seen. When I was chasing it I thought it was a cranefly, but It's a hangingfly, a mecopteran related to scorpionflies. iNaturalist thinks it might be Bittacus strigosus.
The first picture has slightly better focus on the head, and the second is a little better on the prey, which is itself interesting. Is it a fly? Rachicerus maybe?
#hangingfly #mecoptera #photography #bittacidae #insects #arthropods
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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 crane fly in the reeds (there's a book title for you!).
Does anybody know yet what (or if) adult crane flies eat? Their elaborate mouthparts are fascinating. Is this fly watching/sniffing for mates or food? Or just enjoying the sunshine and rippling water?
#fly #flies #tipulidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography #FlyFriday #nature
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Heimdall guarding Bifrost.
Or a little dolichopodid fly on a blade of grass. Depends on your point of view.
#fly #flies #dolichopodidae #insects #arthropods #photography