Animal Taxonomy - Hemiptera
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Phasia hemiptera belongs to the Tachnidae family and has a length of 8 - 12 mm. There are 2 generations per year flying from mid-April through mid-June and from mid-July through the end of September. Females lay their eggs on forest bugs. Larvae appear 52 - 91 hours later and start devouring their host which dies in the end.
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Wantssluipvlieg (Phasia hemiptera)
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In the space of a few minutes in the garden I saw both the beauty (in our eyes) of the pipevine swallowtail nectaring on a flower, and the brutality (in our eyes) of the assassin bug killing the tiny insect. It's all nature, doing its thing...
A spectacular Tachinid. Supposed to be relatively common, but I only came across them for the first time this year.
Phasia hemiptera is a fly belonging to the family tachinid...This species can be found throughout Northern and Southern Europe, to the east it reaches as far as Russia, Siberia and Japan..Phasia hemiptera can reach a body length of 10–11 millimetres (0.39–0.43 in). In these flies the thorax is usually dark brown, the middle of the very flattened abdomen is dark brown or black, while the sides are hairy orange-brown. The hind legs are generally reddish yellow. These flies are strongly sexually dimorphic. The males are more colourful and have broad curved patterned wings with markings of various colors. Sometimes wings show an iridescent blue-black band starting from the front edge, but they may also be or completely dark. Females have narrower and more transparent wings without markings, also their bodies are narrower
Phasia hemiptera, dygliamusė
Lithuania, Tauragės raj. Sakalinės km. 2021.07.15
Canon EOS R
Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro
Phasia hemiptera is a fly belonging to the family tachinid...This species can be found throughout Northern and Southern Europe, to the east it reaches as far as Russia, Siberia and Japan..Phasia hemiptera can reach a body length of 10–11 millimetres (0.39–0.43 in). In these flies the thorax is usually dark brown, the middle of the very flattened abdomen is dark brown or black, while the sides are hairy orange-brown. The hind legs are generally reddish yellow. These flies are strongly sexually dimorphic. The males are more colourful and have broad curved patterned wings with markings of various colors. Sometimes wings show an iridescent blue-black band starting from the front edge, but they may also be or completely dark. Females have narrower and more transparent wings without markings, also their bodies are narrower
The male of this species is one our most striking large flies. The females are mostly black, but they also have the reddish hair at the side of the thorax. They can be quite abundant, but in my area only during a period of 2-3 weeks in August. During this time it is easiest to find them on mint flowers. HFDF!
This tachnid fly predates shieldbugs. It has lovely red hairs on its abdomen and very attractive blue wings.
One of a small group of distinctive Tachinid flies. The males are colourful with curved patterned wings.
Genus: Enithares
Family: Notonectidae
Order: Hemiptera
The Notonectidae or Backswimmers are predatory true-bugs that prey upon invertebrates, such as mosquito larvae, as well as tadpoles and small fish.
They are excellent swimmers but are also capable of flight, allowing them to readily move from one pond to another.
They use atmospheric air for respiration and are often seen near the surface replenishing their air supply. Air is stored in gaseous bubbles trapped under the abdomen, in two troughs lined with hydrophobic hairs.
Some Notonectinidae species, such as Anisops, have a blood pigment similar to mammals that is efficient in carrying oxygen. This allows them to reduce the number of trips to the surface to replenish the oxygen supply.
This species has been appearing in Britain for the last couple of decades, almost entirely on the south coast and mostly around the Boscombe area of Dorset.
Last week, two friends made a journey to a nature reserve in Buckinghamshire. Whilst there, they chanced upon this shieldbug. Uncertain of what it was, they brought it back home, alive, for identification! It was duly confirmed as a Vernal Shieldbug, some distance from any other known records. Today, they have driven back down to Bucks to release it from whence it came! in the meantime, I looked after it and used the opportunity to take these photos.
On rowan. It was not alone - an out of focus leg & antenna can just be seen behind it.
St Mary Magdalene Church, Albrighton
Seen in the goldenrods along Lake Creek, northwest Austin.
The opening above the middle leg makes me think of the tympanum in grasshoppers, but I can't find anything that says these have a comparable hearing organ -
These two insects were seen in the damp, rushy area at the bottom of the hill.
A very common planthopper. So common that I never usually bother to photograph it!
Norbury Hill (almost), Shropshire.