Fly Day Friday
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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.
Colorful algae thrive in a man made geyser in northern Nevada. Climate change is also threatening this natural wonder. Then this landscape photography will no longer be a celebration of natural beauty but part of a documentary of destruction.
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 : )
... 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 ;)
The fly agaric is poisonous. It is even related to the extremely poisonous green tuberous manite! There are various toxins in the hat. It is not yet known what a mushroom uses poison for. Research is still being done. If you ingest the poison, you can become very ill. If you ingest enough poison, it will kill you! In the past, fly agarics were used in rituals. After ingesting the mushroom, shamans (a type of priest) experienced hallucinations.
Mushrooms such as the fly agaric sometimes stand in a circle. The cause of this can also be found under the ground, at the mycelium. When a mycelium grows, it does so in all directions. When the nutrients are used up in the middle of the mycelium, that part dies. This creates an open space in the middle of the mycelium. Only when the mushrooms grow out, you can see the witch circle.
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!
No, the Saxons are modern:). Dresden also has an airport. The balloon flight was apparently a leisure pleasure.
Dresden, Saxony. Germany
..and reach the sky!
Taken at Riverwood Conservancy [Mississauga, Ontario]
Thanks to Lenabem Anna for texture
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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.
Another image from a rare foray out these past few weeks. This was taken in Bolehill Wood below Millstone Edge in Derbyshire - part of the National Trust's Longshaw Estate. The combination of time of year and plenty of recent rain had contributed to a relative abundance of Fly Agarics at different stages in their development. Unfortunately this one had lost most of its white 'spots' in the recemt downpours.