#fridayflyday — Public Fediverse posts

Portrait of a human bot fly. Belize. Friend? Maybe not. But cuter as an adult, I'd say.
#BotFly #Insects #Diptera #FridayFlyday #FlyDay #Oestridae

#fridayflyday - Post a picture of you flying (in any seat, front or back). Use the hashtag - pass it on! Let's fly into this weekend, eh? #aviation #avgeek

Happy #FridayFlyDay from my garden!

1. A long-legged fly (family Dolichopodidae) that actually stayed still for a photo
2. A hoverfly (family Syrphidae) amid the brown-eyed Susans, methodically going from flower to flower

#bugstodon #FlyFriday #insects #flies #Diptera #Dolichopodidae #Syrphidae

For this #FridayFlyday: today I was browsing around trying to ID a fly and inadvertently discovered these. Ant-mimicking flies, genus _Myrmecothea_. Now I've seen it all. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/132235-Myrmecothea

Photos:
- Katja Schulz https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/139649 :CreativeCommons: :cc_by:
- Louis Burns https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/292460732 :CreativeCommons: :cc_by: :cc_nc_us:
- Jane Waters https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/18914443 :CreativeCommons: :cc_by: :cc_nc_us: :cc_sa:
- Mark Faherty :CreativeCommons: :cc_by: :cc_nc_us:

#FlyFriday #bugstodon #flies #insects #Diptera #Ulidiidae #iNaturalist #mimicry #myrmecomorphy

#FridayFlyDay #FlyDay and this Western Gull catching the evening rays as it flies over the harbour. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #BirdPhotography #FujiFilm #XT5 #Nature

Another #FridayFlyDay #FlyDay and a young California Gull finding that sharing fish isn't something Double-crested Cormorants do! #Birds 🪶 #Photography #BirdPhotography #FujiFilm #XT5

#FridayFlyday #FlyDay, and the Red-shouldered Hawk again from yesterday taking off from one spot and it conveniently landed in another spot for more pictures. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #FujiFIlm #XT5

Just now I was in the garden, waiting for the laundry to finish, minding my own business and not looking for any bugs at all, when a plant bug (Miridae) (I think, anyway) dropped out of the sky and landed on the table next to me. Two small flies were feeding on it.

Sometimes #FridayFlyDay comes to you, I guess.

#bugstodon #insects #flies #bugs #Diptera #Hemiptera #Heteroptera #Miridae

trying to be perceived as a normal, friendly person by nodding and smiling as an old man passes me on the sidewalk while I'm hunched over someone's bushes next to their green bin extremely suspiciously, taking photos of flies having sex

#FridayFlyDay #FlyFriday #bugstodon #insects #flies #SoldierFlies #Diptera #Stratiomyidae

#FridayFlyday: just encountered this gorgeous metallic bronze-green-blue soldier fly (family Stratiomyidae) in the garden! It was very placid and let me get lots of photos.

#flyday #FlydayFriday #bugstodon #insects #flies #SoldierFlies #Diptera #Stratiomyidae

#FridayFlyday: after seeing boxwood leaf miners emerging for the first time last weekend, the day before yesterday I saw lots of females ovipositing in the fresh new boxwood leaves!!

#bugstodon #insects #flies #midges #parasitism #galls #Diptera #Cecidomyiidae

Friday Flyday! Here's Meromacrus acutus, a wasp-mimicking hover fly from Texas.

#Syrphidae #FridayFlyday #Insects

#FridayFlyDay #FlyDay, and a Red-winged blackbird catching the early morning sun at Abbotts Lagoon, Point Reyes. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #BirdPhotography #FujiFilm #XT5

It's Friday Flyday, and y'all need this Aussie dance fly. #FridayFlyday
#Insects #Diptera #Empididae

#FridayFlyDay #FlyDay and a squadron of Brown Pelicans over Tiburon. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #BirdPhotography #FujiFilm #XT5

#FridayFlyday #FlyDay and a Green Heron showing just how long that neck can be, as it takes to flight. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #BirdPhotography #FujiFilm #XT5

habe eben vom hashtag #FridayFlyDay gelesen, da hätt' ich einen beitrag :3

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Gattung Bibio

#insects #insekten #krabbeltierchen #flies #nature

Four flies for #FridayFlyDay which I photographed in the back yard yesterday.

Genus Zacompsia (I think)--a picture-winged fly in the family Ulidiida. Neotephritis finalis
(Sunflower Seed Maggot fly)--a species of fruit fly in the family Tephritidae. Genus Elachiptera--genus of frit flies in the family Chloropidae (larvae feed on grasses). Cylindromyia intermedia--a species of bristle fly in the family Tachinidae.

#Flies #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #Nature #MacroPhotography #Insects

#FridayFlyDay - How do you like your Egrets? Snowy or Great? #Birds #Photography #BirdPhotography #FujiFilm #XT5 🪶

#FridayFlyDay #FlyDay and a Red-tailed Kite from our hike up San Pedro Mountain yesterday. Didn't see this beauty until we were nearly all the way back down. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #BirdPhotography

#FridayFlyDay
Robber fly (Family Asilidae) of the genus Ospriocerus. Robber flies are powerfully built predators of arthropods. They are the big cats of the insect world.

#Nature #NaturalHistory #Diptera #Flies #Insects

Given the concurrence of Valentine's Day and #FridayFlyDay, here's a lovebug!

Lovebugs are flies (not bugs) that form mating swarms--if you drive through one, your windshield will get plastered. They fly "hooked up" by their genitals, and so are also called honeymoon flies or double-headed bugs. They can remain attached for several days. Their larvae feed on decaying vegetation in the soil.

This is the only photo of a lovebug that I've got to share. It's Plecia nearctica (the Common Lovebug).

I saved this one for #FridayFlyday, and although the heron was ok with me taking pictures, a walker with a dog did make it move away from the path - but it landed just a few feet away. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #BirdPhotography.

#FridayFlyDay and this Great Blue Heron from back in Seattle, just after take off, going over Elliott Bay. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #BirdPhotography