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......it must be good Flyday
taken a week and a half ago when it was warm! ...cold and wet now for the holiday weekend.
Whether it is a late Spring equinox celebration, or religious stuff including the veneration of the goddess Eostre (from whom the term Easter comes), the Christian resurrection, the end of the Jewish Passover or whatever other possible reason to celebrate ...may you all have as many eggs and rabbits as you could ever wish for.
The Moldy Peaches - Little Bunny Foo Foo
Took this one from across the street and it did pretty good... Didn't know I had a hoverfly as well... Happy Flyday Friday, Everybody!!!
Happy Flyday everyone, have a great weekend.
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... so enjoy it when it does come round!
Happy Final Flyday of June!
This syrphid can also be found here: flic.kr/p/V1SsSB
Yay it's Flyday again! HFDF folks hope you all have a great day and weekend, whatever you have planned ;0)
a fly - I think a dungfly
looking pretty on the flower anyway
and it is FlyDay
The Damned - New Rose
...a pane of glass making me wonder about shadows and reflections.
With the mild weather there are still plenty of these pesky stable flies (Stomoxys calcitrans) about.
It is FlyDay!
Joy Division - Shadowplay
...well it is FlyDay
Camera Obscura - I Don't Do Crowds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOYyhRVrsB0
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Rui says: the flies are: Sepsis sp. and Dilophus febrilis
I think possibly Coenosia tigrina?
It is FlyDay!
Rudi - Tigerland
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJo8S21_kw0
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id confirmed by Rui - see comment below
It's Flyday again, hope it's a good day and weekend for you all! HFDF ;0) Watched this (Myathropa florea) Batman hoverfly grooming itself for sometime! It looked pretty dapper to me before never mind after!
it is a a large syrphid fly with a distinctive pale band across the abdomen and large dark spots on the middle of the wing.
Fascinatingly the larvae of these flies grow inside the nests of the vespula wasps, both the common and german wasps. They feed on the dead wasps and larvae and other detritus in the nest. They can continue to feed and grow in the nest in the Autumn after the nest is abandoned by the wasps.
The adults live on nectar and maybe pollen - this one has pollen on it from the flowers it has visited.
FlyDay Friday
U2 - The Fly
stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) on the patio table
That table really needs repainted! Looks even worse in a macro.
We had lots of these flies last year but hardly any this year.
& some music if you like:
Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself
A noon fly (Mesembrina meridiana) this evening hanging out on the front of my new shed - they seem to bask here every evening these days. Which is nice - I have always been fond of these guys. Amazingly each female lays less than 6 eggs, each into a different cow pat.
Its FlyDay!
The Jam - Tonight at Noon
The last photo of the fly on the Daisy. Now I need some more flies, lol.
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It's FlyDay!!
The plant is Corsican mint (Mentha requienii) in a pot on my patio. One of my favourite plants this year.
New Order - Everything's Gone Green
200/365 -Around the house - Day 200
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These are nasty and their bite is very painful. This species of fly usually inhabit coastal and marshland areas. But a pond is not far from this spot and with all the rain the past month, the field is very wet and boggy in areas. July into August is breeding season.
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Tabanus nigrovittatus, also known as the greenhead horse fly, salt marsh greenhead, or simply the greenhead fly, greenhead or greenfly, is a species of biting horse-fly commonly found around coastal marshes of the Eastern United States. The biting females are a considerable pest to both humans and animals while they seek a source of blood protein to produce additional eggs. Females live for three to four weeks and lay 100 to 200 eggs per blood meal.
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This specimen is 1.5 in. (4cm) long.
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Happy Flyday Friday
Robber Fly
Manual Hand-held focus bracket (Not in camera)
17 images loaded into Adobe PS to be stacked
Very little done in post production.
1/100 F6.3 ISO250
Subject alive wild and free.
I grabbed the grass with one hand shot with the other as it was a little breezy. Laying on the ground like a sniper with OMD systems kit.
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FlyDay Friday!
The Frantic Elevators - Hunchback of Notre Dame
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxv1cwwfdr4
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Update: Rui says: Bicellaria sp. (Hybotidae)
Looking almost as cool as a Ramone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGgfHZ02I2k
Its FlyDay!
Rui says Anthomyiidae
My Jade plant managed to attract a fly for Friday. I'm not able to get as close as David Nice but summer is here and so are the flies!
Happy Flyday Friday ;0) I had to google this one but I think its Sicus ferrugineus. Or as I call it the ugly one! You can't see from this shot but I think the back end is tucked under itself.
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Happy Flyday
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Cluster fly - Pollenia sp, one of several that came out of the edge of the velux window when i opened it. That cavity around the window seems to be their favourite place to spend the winter.
FlyDay
Stiff Little Fingers - Cold
a dung fly on cotoneaster - a seasonal picture of sorts, the cotoneaster is suddenly much less attractive to the bees - Spring must be over!
The Yellow Melodies - Our Time Is Over
because it is FlyDay
not sure what fly this is. i think a male Anthomyiidae ...but i am probably wrong.
& music if you like:
Amaral - Sin ti no soy nada
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcC92ZnhGQY
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Edit: male Anthomyiidae confirmed by Rui (see comments below) - he suggests Hylemya nigrimana as a possible ID
It is FlyDay!
one of the commonest syrphids here.
The larvae are found in wet decaying organic matter including garden compost heaps. Compost heaps are such an important element in making our gardens useful to wildlife! Compost heaps dont just produce compost!
Four Idle Hands - Friday Man
Another shot from the garden last week, we have a couple of sedums in the garden which seemed to go mad this year and as such attracts all sorts of different bees and flies, the flowers have now finished but I thought the forming seed heads made for a more interesting image. Also it's flyday Friday!!
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You can see more of my images on my other flickr account Heath's moth page
Here's a real bruiser for Flyday. Significantly larger than a cleg fly, this is not a horsefly to mess with. Not as large as Tabanus sudeticus or T. bovinus, so I'm not sure which species it is, but a serious fly all the same.
HFDF!