garden, The Netherlands

maybe the last one this year.

Garden, Groningen, TheNetherlands

Large view!

The only trouble with doing macro is you get bit a lot.

And they love me.

After the rain

The Asilidae or Robber fly, also called assassin flies, are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. They are notoriously aggressive predators who feed mainly or exclusively on other insects ranging from other flies to beetles, butterflies. moths, various bees, ants, dragon and damselflies, ichneumon wasps, grasshoppers, and some spiders. As a rule they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight.

I am indebted to leif_85 for identifying this insect for me.

It was a really cold and wet spring day when I found this Bee fly, so I think due to the cold it was very sluggish and allowed me to carry it over to a nearby flower. This gave a more colorful compo : )

on a bench in bristol . not brilliant but its a start into close ups :)

... Bet you that you wish it was summer again and I was buzzing and annoying you again and all dark and cold, and snowy here in winter ;)

1.5 times macro using extension tube with a macro lens. No cropping done. As shot.

Not as focused on all the drops as I would have liked but this is the first time ive seen a fly with this many drops, like jewels!

More photos Here

Many thanks for your visits, kind comments and faves, very much appreciated.

In Stoney wood

No, the Saxons are modern:). Dresden also has an airport. The balloon flight was apparently a leisure pleasure.

Dresden, Saxony. Germany

Happy Wing Wednesday/Arachtober 11 Well maybe not for this fly!

... These two were checked into the Flower Motel ;)

Captured with the CPL filter on the macro lens.

Same place and time as in the previous photo but the landscape is seasoned with ICM swing. Finland. ICM. Abstract.

👱‍♀️🎧🎶 Learning to Fly ( Pink Floyd ).

youtu.be/nVhNCTH8pDs

little fly in the meadow

..sie genießt die letzten Sonnenstrahlen des Tages

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

― Leonardo da Vinci

Canon EF 24 - 105mm at 55mm

1/500 s

f4

ISO 100

Piraeus, Greece.

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Mouche appartenant à la famille Rhinophoridae et de genre Stevenia, mais sans certitude.

Fly belonging to the family Rhinophoridae and of genus Stevenia, but without certainty.

I so can't wait. One of the few things to look forward to. Stay safe and enjoy all (;-D