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Green Bottle Flies are common throughout North America. They are a type of blow fly that may lay their eggs in rotting meat. Historically, blow fly maggots have been used for "maggot therapy" in necrotic tissue, such as in infected, untreated wounds. With widespread availability of antibiotics, "maggot therapy" is seldom used currently. However, with antibiotic resistant bacteria becoming more common, maybe we will see hungry blow fly maggots used again someday :-))
Coreopsis spp. are naturally occuring wildflowers. Two species (or varieties) are planted in my "wildflower" garden.
Not liked by the average person but some species of blow fly can help forensic scientise pin down the time of death of a body by looking at the size of the maggots. Some species can live for several months or even a year if overwintering. Here you can see the extended mouth part called the pseudo trachea and at the end what looks a bit like a mop is a device that consist of many tubes. Through these tubes the fly will gulp its stomach contents over the food to help digest and turn the food into a liquid to be swallowed up. Which reminds me where did I put my last large slice of Victoria Sponge as I'm very hungry now !
A species of blow fly that can live for several months or even for a year. Females will lay around 2000 eggs on scraps of meat and fish etc. Blow flies do have their uses too by helping forensic scientists pin down the time of death when a body is found by looking at the size of the maggots. The Green Bottle Fly is one species of fly that seldom enters the house. It is said that for every person there are 17 million flies.
A couple of male (skinny abdomen) root maggot flies were jostling for the best position on the willow catkin.
Distribution -- As a group, flesh flies occur throughout most areas of the world although species distribution varies. Flesh flies are found in urban and rural communities but, fortunately, are relatively uncommon in houses or restaurants. They breed in excrement, decaying vegetable matter and animal flesh or meat.
Adult flies do not bite but feed on a wide range of liquid substances. Most larvae infest wounds, carrion or excrement. The larvae of some species of flesh flies are beneficial in that they prey on eggs, nymphs, or larvae of more harmful insects. Lesser house fly larvae, blow fly larvae, and grasshopper nymphs are common hosts of flesh flies.
Though they can carry leprosy bacilli, flesh flies usually are not problems as disease carriers or even as nuisances and pose little threat to human welfare or to livestock. A few cases are known in which flesh fly maggots have burrowed from wounds into the healthy flesh of livestock, and some species can cause intestinal pseudomyiasis (infection by fly larvae) in humans who consume food contaminated with larvae.
First summer female??
I quite like the tones and colours in this full sun lit blackbird. I see possibly a gape but odd for a recently fledged bird to be returning to the nest with food.
This tiny member of the Braconidae - you can judge just how tiny by comparing to the 'heart' of our Daisy and to the wee pollen grains stuck to her - was foraging, I imagine for sweets. But she was also looking for a place to deposit an egg. In fact, you can see her drilling into Daisy (inset below right) and preparing to do so in the main photo. From those two photos it's clear, too, that her ovipositor is a complex organ with a central tube, in this case, chestnut brown, and at least one appendage that, I think, is the driller. She flew away, and I took a look closely at the spot where her ovipostior had 'been' to see if I could discern a maggot of some kind. But even with my loupe I couldn't find anything. Perhaps I should look more carefully next time...
This delightful little fruit fly is called the walnut husk maggot because its larvae look like little white maggots if you open up the mushy rotting husk surrounding a black walnut. The definitive key to this fruit fly's ID is that the black wing banding pattern spells out the word "IF" in capital letters. You can see my thumb here for scale. Female walnut husk maggot flies slice open a fresh "green" black walnut husk with their sharp ovipositor and deposit a dozen or so eggs inside the husk. Upon hatching, the larvae, or maggots, eat on the black walnut husk hidden from our view but they do not penetrate the walnut shell and enter the nut proper. When the larvae are mature they crawl out of the walnut husk and then tunnel several inches underground where they will pupate and spend the winter. Remember that the black walnuts are all fallen to the ground by then. Adults like this male emerge in late summer as the black walnuts are ripening on the tree and getting ready to fall, so if you have a black walnut tree in your yard be looking for this colorful tiny fruit fly right now!
Hello everybody. After making a little Hobbiton break for more than one year I decided to build some Hobbit holes again 😉 . For the start I decided to build Maggot's Farm, which was always on top of my to do list. As a reference I used a photo of Maggot's Farm sculpture from Weta Workshop (www.wetanz.com/shop/environments/the-hobbit-house-of-farm...). The roof is made out of a great technique from @fullplate ( www.flickr.com/photos/emillide/ )you can find a tutorial for it on his awesome account :)
I hope you like it :)
Root Maggot Fly (Anthomyia punctipennis) male
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Just quickly posting this one image today as Louise and Rui are arriving down from Sydney for their wedding next Friday.
I will catch up with your images later this evening.
I've a few of this species, but I am not sure of the ID, nor of another I have.
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The Anthomyiidae are a large and diverse family of Muscoidea flies. Most look rather like small houseflies, but are commonly drab grey. The genus Anthomyia, in contrast, is generally conspicuously patterned in black-and-white or black-and-silvery-grey. Most are difficult to identify, apart from a few groups such as the kelp flies that are conspicuous on beaches.
The name Anthomyiidae was derived from Greek anthos (flower) plus myia (a fly). Some species are commonly called "root-maggots", as the larvae are found in the stems and roots of various plants. As larvae, some also feed on decaying plant material. The well-known grey "seaweed flies" or "kelp flies" (Fucellia) are examples. Others are scavengers in such places as birds' nests; yet other species are leaf miners; the family also includes inquilines, commensals, and parasitic larvae.
Some species in the family are significant agricultural pests, particularly some from the genus Delia, which includes the onion fly (D. antiqua), the wheat bulb fly (D. coarctata), the turnip root fly (D. floralis), the bean seed fly (D. platura), and the cabbage root fly (D. radicum).
When I got my first macro lense I told the guy at the camera store "I just want to see what the dragonflies are eating."
Eastern Pondhawk male with a possible Fox Maggot (Wohlfahrtia vigil). bugguide.net/node/view/229563
Id corrections appreciated.
Found near Wickiup Hill Nature Center in Iowa.
Length ~ 1 cm
The birds are happy when there are maggots between the peanuts :-)
Lens: Canon EF/S 35 mm F/2.8 Macro 1:1
Also known as "sunflower seed maggot", not such a pretty name. One more critter turns up in the mistflowers...
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Muscoidea
Family Anthomyiidae (Root-Maggot Flies)
Genus Anthomyia
No Taxon (pluvialis section)
Species illocata (Anthomyia illocata)
July 18, 2022; Leon County, Tallahassee, Florida. Exotic species introduced from Asia.
Canon M6M2; Tak 105mm relay lens; 3.7x objective; Zerene Stacker.
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Maggots, Larva in Chili and Grasshoppers with Basil leafes. This Lady serves it all.
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Got this beautiful male house sparrow in the garden they have really declined so am so happy to get a shot of one with its maggot prey.
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Photo taken with my new Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens.
The common green bottle fly (biological name Phaenicia sericata or Lucilia sericata) is a blow fly found in most areas of the world, and the most well-known of the numerous green bottle fly species. It is 10–14 mm long, slightly larger than a house fly, and has brilliant, metallic, blue-green or golden coloration with black markings. It has short, sparse black bristles (setae) and three cross-grooves on the thorax. The wings are clear with light brown veins, and the legs and antennae are black. The maggots (larvae) of the fly are used for maggot therapy.
Lucilia sericata is common all over the temperate and tropical regions of the planet, mainly the Southern Hemisphere: Africa and Australia. It prefers warm and moist climates and accordingly is especially common in coastal regions, but it also is present in arid areas.The female lays her eggs in meat, fish, animal corpses, infected wounds of humans or animals, and excrement. The larvae feed on decomposing tissue. The insect favours species of the genus Ovis, domestic sheep in particular. This can lead to blow fly strike, causing problems for sheep farmers, though L. sericata is not a major cause of blow fly strike in most regions.
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