3x, Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens

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.

3,2x

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Wantssluipvlieg (Phasia hemiptera)

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Looks scary, so just as well it is just a couple of mm high.

Canon EOS 5DS R

TAMRON 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010

ƒ/6.3 300.0 mm 1/1000 200

A spectacular Tachinid. Supposed to be relatively common, but I only came across them for the first time this year.

Growing up in our garden...

Hemiptera - Cicadidae

3m length, stack with 315 shots, 5x, Mitutoyo Plan Apo 5x lens

Apilado de 248 fotos, 7x, Lente JML 21mm

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

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Phasia hemiptera, dygliamusė

Lithuania, Tauragės raj. Sakalinės km. 2021.07.15

Canon EOS R

Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro

This tachnid fly predates shieldbugs. It has lovely red hairs on its abdomen and very attractive blue wings.

The same individual as yesterday, but an hour later or so. Focus-stacked (17 images)

Hemiptera. Pentatomidae.

Himacerus mirmicoides. Suffolk UK

Dawley Hamlets LNR, Telford.

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 -

Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire

Hemiptera

Hemiptera Album flic.kr/s/aHsmxorJkM

On rowan. It was not alone - an out of focus leg & antenna can just be seen behind it.

St Mary Magdalene Church, Albrighton

Aston Rowant NR , UK .

Phasia hemiptera

First time I've seen a nymph of this remarkable-looking Homopteran bug. Llanymynech Rocks, Shropshire.

Pirineo catalán

Holed up in the purple leaf of a purple heart flower plant...

On another equally wet day!

Bellignies - Parc de l'Avesnois - France

Severn Hospice, Bicton Heath.

In a mutabilis rose. I'm always fascinated by the depth of detail you see in some of these tiny bugs...

The green shield bug (Palomena prasina) is a shield bug of the family Pentatomidae

Another new one for me! 😊

Moncourt-Fromonville - France

On an oxe-eye daisy.

Severn Valley Country Park, Alveley, Shropshire.