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The Uzia fly is a very lazy one. He's a tiny little fly, buzzing around at spring between flowers and sipping nectar and pollen. But only when it's sunny enough to fly... when the sun is hidden behind the clouds, he prefers to wait. He is the main pollinator of the Linum pubescens (posted yesterday). I did a little field work on them in my first degree in biology. Funny little creatures.
Anyway, here I caught one on a Cichorium pumilum (Dwarf Chicory). View in LARGE for better details!
Cichorium pumilum
Dwarf Chicory
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Maple Leaf Farms (Kern County, California), sometime in the early 1950s. As I recall, the potato plants were sprayed with some chemical to kill the foliage. The potatoes were planted on ridges. The blade of the digger traveled several inches below the surface of the ridges (the man standing on the digger could adjust the depth to get lots of potatoes without slicing through many). The dirt (with the potatoes) was lifted up and moved over a surface that let dirt drop through and then dropped the potatoes and vines off the back on top of the dirt.
The potatoes dug on the previous pass through the field are already gathered in sacks (at left) and the picker at right is ready to go to work on the new pass as soon as the digger is out of the way.
Camera: Minolta XD-11; Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm f/1.4; Film: Lomochrome Purple XR 100-400 @ 200;
We have been taking the dogs up to the wild end of Tilgate park for walkies.
Here are some shots from today's walk.
More than a foot of snow fell while we were at the cabin. The road is not maintained in the winter, so we were thankful for the powder.