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keadamander (@[email protected])

https://pixelfed.social/p/keadamander/948569310629650459

> Hovering Through Spring #photography #helios #helios44 #helios44m #macroextentiontube #spring #springblossom #blossoms #flowerphotography #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #insectphotography #bee #beefly #pollinator #closeup #floral #petals #bokeh #springtime #gardenphotography #wildlifephotography #macro_perfection

keadamander (@[email protected])

https://pixelfed.social/p/keadamander/948569310629650459

> Hovering Through Spring #photography #helios #helios44 #helios44m #macroextentiontube #spring #springblossom #blossoms #flowerphotography #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #insectphotography #bee #beefly #pollinator #closeup #floral #petals #bokeh #springtime #gardenphotography #wildlifephotography #macro_perfection

keadamander (@[email protected])

https://pixelfed.social/p/keadamander/948569310629650459

> Hovering Through Spring #photography #helios #helios44 #helios44m #macroextentiontube #spring #springblossom #blossoms #flowerphotography #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #insectphotography #bee #beefly #pollinator #closeup #floral #petals #bokeh #springtime #gardenphotography #wildlifephotography #macro_perfection

keadamander (@[email protected])

https://pixelfed.social/p/keadamander/948569310629650459

> Hovering Through Spring #photography #helios #helios44 #helios44m #macroextentiontube #spring #springblossom #blossoms #flowerphotography #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #insectphotography #bee #beefly #pollinator #closeup #floral #petals #bokeh #springtime #gardenphotography #wildlifephotography #macro_perfection

keadamander (@[email protected])

https://pixelfed.social/p/keadamander/948569310629650459

> Hovering Through Spring #photography #helios #helios44 #helios44m #macroextentiontube #spring #springblossom #blossoms #flowerphotography #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #insectphotography #bee #beefly #pollinator #closeup #floral #petals #bokeh #springtime #gardenphotography #wildlifephotography #macro_perfection

Greater Bee Fly. So fuzzy!!

#macroPhotography #insects #diptera #beeFly #GreaterBeeFly

Greater Bee Fly, a tiny speck of an orange ball that we noticed flitting about the wildflowers. #Nature #insects #beefly #Ontario #Canada #insects

Male Downland Bee-fly (Villa cingulata), freshly emerged, on a Pyramidal Orchid. Today at Murhill Bank, Winsley, #Wiltshire (near #Bath).
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #insect #beefly #orchid #wildflower

I appreciate this fly's dedication to the goth aesthetic.

(It is a type of Bee Fly that is apparently found all over the NA continent but I don't think I've ever seen or at least noticed this particular kind until now.)

#yeg #yegGardening #gardening #BeeFly #fly #insect #BloomScrolling

I appreciate this fly's dedication to the goth aesthetic.

(It is a type of Bee Fly that is apparently found all over the NA continent but I don't think I've ever seen or at least noticed this particular kind until now.)

#yeg #yegGardening #gardening #BeeFly #fly #insect #BloomScrolling

I appreciate this fly's dedication to the goth aesthetic.

(It is a type of Bee Fly that is apparently found all over the NA continent but I don't think I've ever seen or at least noticed this particular kind until now.)

#yeg #yegGardening #gardening #BeeFly #fly #insect #BloomScrolling

I appreciate this fly's dedication to the goth aesthetic.

(It is a type of Bee Fly that is apparently found all over the NA continent but I don't think I've ever seen or at least noticed this particular kind until now.)

#yeg #yegGardening #gardening #BeeFly #fly #insect #BloomScrolling

I appreciate this fly's dedication to the goth aesthetic.

(It is a type of Bee Fly that is apparently found all over the NA continent but I don't think I've ever seen or at least noticed this particular kind until now.)

#yeg #yegGardening #gardening #BeeFly #fly #insect #BloomScrolling

A Long Nose Bee Fly
Insects I see around the house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombylius_major

#BeeFly
#insect
#insectsofmastodon

I tracked down the illustrator of the above: Amanda Konishi. Here's that bee fly. #BeeFly #bombyliidae #diptera #insects #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/DCrsP_kR4K6/

I tracked down the illustrator of the above: Amanda Konishi. Here's that bee fly. #BeeFly #bombyliidae #diptera #insects #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/DCrsP_kR4K6/

I tracked down the illustrator of the above: Amanda Konishi. Here's that bee fly. #BeeFly #bombyliidae #diptera #insects #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/DCrsP_kR4K6/

I tracked down the illustrator of the above: Amanda Konishi. Here's that bee fly. #BeeFly #bombyliidae #diptera #insects #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/DCrsP_kR4K6/

I tracked down the illustrator of the above: Amanda Konishi. Here's that bee fly. #BeeFly #bombyliidae #diptera #insects #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/DCrsP_kR4K6/

#FliegenderFlausch #BeeflyWatch Die Wollschweber (Bombylius) sind im Garten unterwegs! 🐝🥰 Da ich kein gutes Foto machen konnte, habe ich gezeichnet. 😇 #Dortmund #gardening #beefly #pleinAirpril #urbansketching #urbansketchers #inkdrawing #traditionalart #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

#FliegenderFlausch #BeeflyWatch Die Wollschweber (Bombylius) sind im Garten unterwegs! 🐝🥰 Da ich kein gutes Foto machen konnte, habe ich gezeichnet. 😇 #Dortmund #gardening #beefly #pleinAirpril #urbansketching #urbansketchers #inkdrawing #traditionalart #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

#FliegenderFlausch #BeeflyWatch Die Wollschweber (Bombylius) sind im Garten unterwegs! 🐝🥰 Da ich kein gutes Foto machen konnte, habe ich gezeichnet. 😇 #Dortmund #gardening #beefly #pleinAirpril #urbansketching #urbansketchers #inkdrawing #traditionalart #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

#FliegenderFlausch #BeeflyWatch Die Wollschweber (Bombylius) sind im Garten unterwegs! 🐝🥰 Da ich kein gutes Foto machen konnte, habe ich gezeichnet. 😇 #Dortmund #gardening #beefly #pleinAirpril #urbansketching #urbansketchers #inkdrawing #traditionalart #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

#FliegenderFlausch #BeeflyWatch Die Wollschweber (Bombylius) sind im Garten unterwegs! 🐝🥰 Da ich kein gutes Foto machen konnte, habe ich gezeichnet. 😇 #Dortmund #gardening #beefly #pleinAirpril #urbansketching #urbansketchers #inkdrawing #traditionalart #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

Yet another Dark-banded bee fly. They are extremely abundant this year. I had no idea though that the little Platycheirus albimanus (I think) hoverfly was present. With the shallow depth of field, they must be almost touching. A dramatic defence of territory by the smaller insect?

#insect #BeeFly #ecology

Another Dark-edged Bee Fly (Bombylius major).

Several of these were hovering but at around 20cm off the ground, in open sunshine over dried mud.

The Eristalis were also hovering but at around 1.7m and kept close to the hedge.

These were also hanging around their mining bee hosts.

#BeeFly #insects

just cute bee flies with some adorable sweets! 

This is available on mugs, shirts, pillows, and totes. #beeflies #beefly #pattern #artistshop

https://cosmiccrate.com/collections/the-shirt-hoard

Looks like a bee, but this is mimicry.

The large bee-flies (Bombylus major) are always fun to watch. Their proboscis appears to be almost as long as the fly itself.

#photography #photo #nature #naturephotography #mft #microfourthirds #darktable #macrophotography #macro #nature #naturephotography #animals #wildlife #insects #bombylius #BombyliusMajor #flies #flying #BeeFly #wollschweber #GroßerWollschweber

A bee fly in the genus Geron. Per BugGuide, it's the only group of bombyliid that bobs up and down above a flower before landing. Anyone know why they do that? Madras, Oregon, USA. #diptera #fly #insect #nature #entomology #BeeFly #FlyDay

The second clip shows a Honey Bee disturbed on Ceanothus by a Dark-edged Bee-fly.

Spring has started quite slowly: still relatively few nectar sources and daytime temperatures need to be a bit higher too.2 of 2

#ApisMellifera #BombyliusMajor #HoneyBee #BeeFly #Ceanothus
#Pollinators

@biodiversitypix

ONE OF THE BEE FLIES (Sparnopolius fulvus, Wied.)
"No butterfly or any other creature of the air could be more beautiful than this dream of early summer. The black velvet body, into which the sunlight sank and disappeared, the fringe of golden hairs along its sides, the steel gray, myriad-facet eyes of which its head was made, and the delicately formed wings, so thin that the light in passing through them was refracted into rainbow tints, made it seem to me more beautiful than almost any of those gorgeous forms of insect life which sometimes fill the clearings in Brazilian forests. It does seem strange that such a thing as this should live its other life a parasite grub within the larva of some caterpillar, or in the egg-case of some grasshoppers but so it seems to do. It spends its childhood as a disease, and its mating days as a dainty fly among the nectar-hearing flowers."

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4428248#page/160/mode/1up

#entomology #BeeFly #bombyliidae

@biodiversitypix

ONE OF THE BEE FLIES (Sparnopolius fulvus, Wied.)
"No butterfly or any other creature of the air could be more beautiful than this dream of early summer. The black velvet body, into which the sunlight sank and disappeared, the fringe of golden hairs along its sides, the steel gray, myriad-facet eyes of which its head was made, and the delicately formed wings, so thin that the light in passing through them was refracted into rainbow tints, made it seem to me more beautiful than almost any of those gorgeous forms of insect life which sometimes fill the clearings in Brazilian forests. It does seem strange that such a thing as this should live its other life a parasite grub within the larva of some caterpillar, or in the egg-case of some grasshoppers but so it seems to do. It spends its childhood as a disease, and its mating days as a dainty fly among the nectar-hearing flowers."

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4428248#page/160/mode/1up

#entomology #BeeFly #bombyliidae

My first #BeeFly this year!

Although they might look intimidating with their long proboscis, they are absolutely harmless (as long as you are not a target for their larvae that is, but if you're not an insect, you need not worry).

They usually just sit or buzz around, looking for some sweet nectar to feed on. And pollinate plants this way! Some even hover while sucking nectar like tiny hummingbirds, which just makes them even more awesome. :blobaww:

#photography #EyesOnNature #macro #insect

My first #BeeFly this year!

Although they might look intimidating with their long proboscis, they are absolutely harmless (as long as you are not a target for their larvae that is, but if you're not an insect, you need not worry).

They usually just sit or buzz around, looking for some sweet nectar to feed on. And pollinate plants this way! Some even hover while sucking nectar like tiny hummingbirds, which just makes them even more awesome. :blobaww:

#photography #EyesOnNature #macro #insect