Loving the Thistle - _TNY_5090
A male Gymnosoma nudifrons tachinid fly on top of a thistle at Åva-Stensjödal in Tyresta national park on the south side of Stockholm, Sweden in
late July (of 2023).
The Swedish name for Tachinid fles translates into "parasitic flies", something that some find scary as they assume they parasitise on humans.
This is not true though and this particular species targets shield bugs in the Carpocoris, Holcostethus and Phimodera genera.
Loving the Thistle - _TNY_5090
A male Gymnosoma nudifrons tachinid fly on top of a thistle at Åva-Stensjödal in Tyresta national park on the south side of Stockholm, Sweden in
late July (of 2023).
The Swedish name for Tachinid fles translates into "parasitic flies", something that some find scary as they assume they parasitise on humans.
This is not true though and this particular species targets shield bugs in the Carpocoris, Holcostethus and Phimodera genera.