Sea hollies are beautiful plants, and well loved by bumblebees and other native bees, as well as butterflies and beetles, and even unusual flies such as some tachinids.
These flies make me laugh so hard. They're basically a sex drive that's manifested as much eye as little fly wings can hold, all so they can find other sex drives.
I could have photographed this Eutolmus rubibarbis from above, but it is more fun and interesting to look for different angles. It is a fly, but it is capable of capturing prey such as bees, wasps or dragonflies, even in flight using its spiny legs to hold them, and with its proboscis it injects them with neurotoxins.
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Podría haber fotografiado este Eutolmus rubibarbis desde arriba, pero es más divertido e interesante buscar ángulos diferentes. Es una mosca, pero es capaz de capturar presas como abejas, avispas o libélulas, incluso en vuelo utilizando sus patas espinosas para sujetarlas, y con su probóscide les inyectan neurotóxicos.
Ich hätte diesen Eutolmus rubibarbis auch von oben fotografieren können, aber es macht mehr Spaß und ist interessanter, nach verschiedenen Blickwinkeln zu suchen.
Es ist eine Fliege, aber sie ist in der Lage, Beute wie Bienen, Wespen oder Libellen zu fangen, sogar im Flug, indem sie ihre stacheligen Beine benutzt, um sie festzuhalten, und mit ihrem Rüssel injiziert sie ihnen Neurotoxine.
Unknown flies with beautiful copperish colours courting and mating on the surface of a dead crab by the beach. A male was playing a song with its wing, successfully leading to mating.
It’s the season. A few steps along the path by the sea I stumbled upon a mating pair of black-backed grass skimmer hoverflies, Paragus haemorrhous http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/174048347
Impressive eyes the male (on top) has, makes him look much bigger—his eyes so broad they meet above. These are eyes built to find females.
Happy #FlyDay This shot cost me dearly and I nearly dropped my camera. It was rushed and therefore poorly lit and framed, but those eyes are cool as hell. If you listen close enough, you just might hear the next word that came out of my mouth...
Going to end this fly mini-series with a member of one of the earliest-diverging branches of flies: a mosquito!
This is an elephant mosquito (Toxorhynchites speciosus), so called because they're huge, not elephant predators! They're actually friends: the adults eat nectar and the babies eat other mosquitoes' larvae, especially disease-transmitting tiger mosquitoes!
A Violet Leafwalker (Chalcosyrphus chalybeus). These flies are wasp mimics. They even flick their wings the way mud-dauber wasps do. From some angles they are dark, Darth Vader black. From other angles they have the color of cobalt blue bottles.
OC Pretty fly (possibly Minettia longipennis), southern Germany