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Autotags thinks this is a dragonfly!
Since I have my flickr language setting as spanish i have just learned (courtesy of looking it up in google) a new spanish word
libélula is spanish for dragonfly. I know this now but will probably forget this by tomorrow but it will be easier to learn it again when I come across it in the future!
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Rui says this is Neomyia viridescens
maybe Helina, from my "match the picture" approach to ID or maybe Coenosia tigrina?
Half Man Half Biscuit - Emerging from Gorse
A dung fly on pink Erica.
These Spring flowering heathers were very popular with bumble bees and the honey bees but there were a few flies too.
The Yellow Melodies - Friday Night
Stomoxys calcitrans
definitely less of these this year at my house.
Happy FlyDay
The Ruts - Backbiter
for the 3rd Flyday of 2018.
If I remember right this was a cluster fly (Pollenia spp) that had just come out of the edge of a velux window i had opened ( this seems to be their preferred winter habitat)
The larvae of these guys are earthworm parasites
Friday On My Mind by The Easybeats (1966)
Flesh Fly / Graue Fleischfliege (Sarcophaga carnaria) - Large On Black
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
A fly, the first one to stay still this year. Happy Flyday and have a great weekend.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)
When I started photography, my goal was to be able to take full frame close ups of insects with plenty of detail. Like this.
I am very very pleased with this shot. My thanks to the cooperative fly which sat still on the wooden bench as I inched closer.
HFDF!
There it is! The scourge of the New Jersey Shore...the relentless, the merciless, the vicious Green-head!
Photographed on the side-view mirror just trying to get into our car to have his way with us.
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Preserve
Aug 27, 2014
Happy Flyday Friday
...probably wrong. (edit: it was wrong)
a male cluster fly (Pollenia sp) no its a muscid fly see comment from Rui
anyway looking very punky. ...which I do like
Happy FlyDay
Television Personalities - Part Time Punks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pKkOOQR7_o
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Rui says: It's a muscid. He thinks a male Helina sp. see comment below