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The apple variety is Jupiter - a triploid variety - so doesnt produce pollen that can fertilize another variety but needs another (diploid) tree to provide pollen to produce Jupiter apples.
...So all take with no give.
Good tasting apple - hard, sharp and cox type taste.
Standing under the trees, I think it seems considerably less popular with my honey bees that the other varieties near it. Produces plenty of apples though so something must visit to sort out the pollination. Cant imagine this little fly is important to the process but who knows?
Adam and the Ants - Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios
on car windscreen
There were about 10 of these on the 2 cars, just now.
The car is the wrong beast to choose for getting blood out of. Maybe it is just a resting perch while they wait for opportunity for next meal.
Mazzy Star - Taste Of Blood
Its late on FlyDay and I cant find any recent suitable pictures. Had to trawl through the discards for this one - best of the rejects. ...not quite sure what i will do for the rest of the winter.
happy FlyDay ...may be my last one for a while unless I work out a source of models.
and some music if you want
Lou Doillon - Questions And Answers
A dung fly on a yellow crocus petal with evidence of crocus pollen consumption. In the walled garden at Rowallane.
They are nature's great posers, always waiting for someone to come along to take their picture.
& a bit of music if you like:
The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
Stomoxys calcitrans - Stable fly on the patio table back in August.
I was just looking through some old pictures to find a fly for Flyday when I suddenly recognised that this one had the same distinctive mouthparts of one that Rui Andrade had identified for me very recently. I was so pleased with myself for recognising it that I just had to post it for Flyday.
It is FlyDay
in a pot on the patio
& some music if you want
Mazzy Star - 5 string serenade
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBgsMNqzq_0
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See comment from Rui. These little flies are Oscinella sp in the family Chloropidae.
I thought I'd start Friday with a double Fly post for Fly Friday. This is the same fly, from side and top. I've not seen one like it, but it reminds me, the eyes, at least, of some sort of Robber Fly. Thanks to Dougie for an ID.
Thanks for Viewing.
rubbing her hands together on a wall flower (Erysimum cheiri) in a pot on the patio.
Its FlyDay
Four Idle Hands - Friday Man
i think
on Common Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) and enjoying the heat.
....it must be FlyDay
Shonen Knife - Heatwave
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it was unlucky for some...
... i must say i do genuinely feel particularly sorry for Jo Swinson.
anyway this fly has an amber beard.
& music if you like:
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O9P5Us_eVo
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edit: Rui says this is Calliphora vomitoria: the proper bluebottle!
A hover fly for (Good) Friday Flyday! Have a fabuolus weekend, everyone, and for those of you who celebrate it, a happy Easter!
FRONTPAGE!!! Thanks Hubsio for grabbing a SS! mwah!
Thank you so much my Flickr FRIENDS!!!!
After seeing this shot of mine on the computer,never again will i let another fly land on my food!!! EEeewwww!!!
Sorry if i disgusted you w/ my post my friends!!!TGIF!!!will be dropping by in your streams later! mwah!
and gorse flower
...a tiny sliver of place and time that had an approximately zero chance of a human noticing.
We are so tiny and unnoticed in the grand scheme of time and place. And much tinier and even more unnoticed things surround us ad infinitum.
But nice to see and ponder and appreciate occasionally. I think that is what i am trying to do when I wander with a camera.
Mazzy Star - five string serenade
A huge Flesh Fly, or I think it's that. Whatever it was *big*!!
Happy Flyday everyone.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)
24 carat noon fly
Same noon fly whose butt I featured yesterday
its FlyDay!
& music if you like
First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
Seen and taken yesterday. Not quite sure about the photo, but have a great weekend. Happy Flyday.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)
Fear of the unknown---for Fly Day Friday :)
Hope everyone had a great week so far, with nothing too scary.... :]
Have a great Flyday and weekend! HFDF!
congregating. busy moving on foot.
Not sure if it is a mating congregation, I coldnt see any copulation. Just a general sense of busyness with out much bumping into each other.
Previously i saw something similar with similarly shaped flies and RuiAndrade was able to say that it was flies of family Scatopsidae. I am not sure if this occasion is exactly the same or not ...but looks like it could be ...to my untrained eye.
On a plastic, 3D printed, tortoise on a post by the river. The tortoise has previously featured on my photostream.
It must be FlyDay
The Yellow Melodies - Dance party
doing what dung flies do
on dung
& some music if you like
Mazzy Star - Be My Angel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7JQ0dM6VqE
a cropped and reversed version of this picture was used in a scientific book - published as a free pdf:
Cow patty critters: An introduction to the ecology, biology and identification of insects in cattle dung on Canadian pastures
Book · April 2023
author: K.D. Floate, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, Canada
it can be accessed here: publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2023/aac-aafc/A...
from the author: "Dung insect ecology is similar across continents and many of the species in North America are of European origin. The book is written for the layperson with many high quality colour photographs and figures. For all these reasons, it should find a broad readership among ranchers, farmers, naturalists and students."
Not sure how to ID these flies closer.
the flower is Angelica sylvestris
Its FlyDay!
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Rui says Calliphora vomitoria and points out the "characteristic orange beard"
This little beauty was chillin' and enjoying the afternoon sun.
This is a photo I took a good while ago and I keep coming across it and say 'oh I'll use that next week!' .... next week comes and goes and I've either forgotton or decided to upload something else.
I hope you all get some warm sunshine to enjoy and have a lovely weekend ahead!!
HFDF!