#Flies

2025-07-06

Another new iNat species record for the county: Sphaerophoria sulphuripes, the Forked Globetail

A type of syrphid hoverfly

#insects #flies

A small hoverfly rests on the golden yellow disc flowers of a daisy, surrounded by the long white ray flowers. The fly is black and yellow overall, with big black eyes, a black thorax with spots of yellow on the sides, and a black and yellow striped abdomen.
2025-07-05

A fly. Striped hover? A kind of flower fly?

#wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #insects #fly #flies

a fly.  perhaps a striped hover fly or a kind of flower fly

Eristalis tenax (Eristale gluante) sur sa fleur de mûrier.

#photography #nature #flies #insect

Vue de face d'une Eristale Gluante (Eristalis tenax) sur une fleur de mûrier. C'est une mouche inoffensive.Vue de derrière d'une Eristale Gluante (Eristalis tenax) sur une fleur de mûrier. C'est une mouche inoffensive.Vue du dessus d'une Eristale Gluante (Eristalis tenax) sur une fleur de mûrier. C'est une mouche inoffensive.
On voit très bien le délicat motif des nervures des ailes.
2025-07-03

Anyone know how to make a humane trap for regular, big ol' house flies? I don't mean the sweetened vinegar traps -- I don't think they're so effective on these bigger fellows, plus I don't really want to kill anything I don't have to. #flies #insects

2025-07-03
#fotovorschlag
'Farbe: Grün (aber nicht Vegetation)'

Goldfliege | Common green bottle fly

#bugreport #insects #insect #nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #natur #naturfotografie #arthropods #flies #green
A common green bottle fly on a Leaf, only the fly is colored, the rest of the picture is desaturated to black and white.
2025-07-03
Alexa ꩜ ☾⭒°✧sonder@app.wafrn.net
2025-07-02

Great! Just what I wanted on my bingo card! TBH with all of the awful things happening in this cursed timeline nothing shocks me anymore. Is the zombie apocalypse next?


#Ramblings #rant #vent #the-worst-timeline #news #USA #Mexico #Texas #flies #bugs #insects #scary
A news notification on an iPhone screen that reads “A flesh-eating bug could wreak havoc in Texas and Mexico. The U.S. is fighting back with billions of flies.”
kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮kernpanik@chaos.social
2025-07-01

Different #hoverflies, spotted in #Goettingen, Germany, 01-Jul-2025.

#photography #nature #wildlife #insects #flies #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT2 #Fujinon #XF90mm #Göttingen
(photos: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Photo of a slim black-and-white hoverfly, launching into flight from a pale violet flower.Photo of a fat black-and-yellow hoverfly, sitting on a small yellow flower.Photo of a dark fat hoverfly, sitting on a small yellow flower.Photo of a slim yellow-and-black hoverfly, sitting on a delicate pale violet flower.
2025-06-29

I love his little white beard. Looks like an old prospector

Robber fly, possibly from Subfamily Stenopogoninae? That's a guess based on iNat CV and perusing local photos. Not too many robber fly observations around here so far

#insects #flies

A closely cropped photo of a large robber fly, a flying insect. The fly has large black compound eyes, with long white hairs below that look like a man's beard. It has long hairs all over the rest of its thorax, and its long reddish legs are covered in coarse spiny hairs as well. Its black wings are folded over its long, thin abdomen that is mostly gray, but tipped in dark red.
2025-06-29

#52WochenFotoChallenge
2025/26 #Unterhalb

Unterhalb des Blattes lebt es sich deutlich sicherer, wenn man eine Red-headed Pine Sawfly ist.

#flies #insects #macro

Eine schlanke, schwarze Fliege mit rotem Kopf hält sich an der Unterseite eines Blattes fest. Das Blatt ist noch zusammengerollt und mit feinen silberigen Haaren umwickelt.
neville parknev@flipping.rocks
2025-06-27

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

A yellowish plant bug (a kind of true bug, with a stylet mouth) on its back on a green table. Two small housefly-like flies, fairly nondescript except for two bold stripes down their faces and horizontal dark red lines across their eyes, are latched on to its side, digging in with their mouthparts.
neville parknev@flipping.rocks
2025-06-27

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

A pair of yellow flies with elongated bodies, long wings, and large, hemispheric gold-bronze-green iridescent eyes, mating on a leaf.The flies seen from above. The male (upper) has his wings folded over his back; the female (lower) has her wings spread. The male's hind legs have short, bright golden fur on the bottom side.
2025-06-23

Loxocera cylindrica (Psilidae). They puncture and hoover up fluids from leaves, resulting in patches of brown discoloration that give the family its common name (rust flies). Larvae mature inside stems of inland sedge, so common around calcareous swamps and marshes. Lake Mohonk, New York. #insects #flies #diptera #psilidae #entomology #nature #macrophotography

Slender, elegant fly with a shiny amber thorax bisected by a dark medial line.

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