Cópula de la mosca Trypetoptera punctulata
Teniendo en cuenta que hoy es sábado sabadete.Trypetoptera punctulata. Cópula de este diminuto díptero, de apenas 5 mm. de longitud y distribución mediterránea. Los adultos pueden localizarse de mayo a octubre.
#insects #insectos #mosca #diptera #macro #photography #nature #naturaleza #fotografia
Algunas de dípteros
Empis (Empididae)
Muscoidea
Rhyncomyia (Calliphoridae)
Syrphidae
#Diptera #SerraSaoMamede #AlbuferadeValencia
Myopa (M. pellucida?) side view
Myopa (M. pellucida?) from above
A fabulously weird Myopa (M. pellucida?) Bee Grabber fly - an endoparasite of solitary bees. North Herefordshire
Here they are (Zygothrica sp) going at it to defend their mushroom kingdom.
El Refugio, Intag, Ecuador
A fly with red eyes that are shaped upward like horns. The fly has pale legs and underside with brown on the top of the head and a brown and tan striped scutum. It is standing on an off white mushroom.
Two flies with red eyes that are shaped upward like horns. The flies have pale legs and undersides with brown on the top of the head, a brown and tan striped scutum, and a dark brown and pale striped abdomen. The fly on the left is getting ready to shove the fly on the right with his front leg.
Two flies with red eyes that are shaped upward like horns. The flies have pale legs and undersides with brown on the top of the head, a brown and tan striped scutum, and a dark brown and pale striped abdomen. The fly on the left is shoving the fly on the right with his front leg.
Just a lil guy defending his mushroom.
We found a log covered in mushrooms and spotted some small hammerhead flies on it. Turns out these are feisty fruit flies and the males are serious about defending their patch. One of our coolest finds so far! #invert
(Zygothrica sp.) Intag Refugio, Ecuador
Two flies a small distance away from each other grasp grass blades above the ground after emerging from bee nests.
A fly grasping a blade of grass is still soft and with shriveled wings. It has just emerged from a bee nest below.
A view of a heavy-bodied brown fly with large red eyes sitting on the tip of a leaf blade.
A grayish brown fly with a yellow face and reddish eyes rests on a white background. It has a long beak held under and behind its head
Most surprising find @ bee aggregation '26 were lots of thick-headed #flies emerging! They're parasitoids of adult bees, grabbing them mid-air to inject eggs into the abdomen. Eww but cool! (I guess not if you're a bee 😂) Here's one on a flower: flic.kr/p/2ocMhfV
#Conopidae: #Zodion
NC, USA
I was trying to work out what was happening here. Maybe a as a nuptial gift as well? Is that common practice?
Epistrophe eligans a sparkling bronze and orange hoverfly perched on a green leaf
I seems like Epistrophe eligans is having a good year so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that 2 have turned up in my garden for the first time!
#Diptera #fly #hoverfly
Ohhhh tomorrow you can listen to Lee Davies and myself talking flies and fungi with Sue Perkins & Sara Pascoe
Nature Table - Tuesday April 14th - 6.30pm on BBC Radio 4 🪰🍄
Much fun was had recording this 😎
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I’m about to give a talk at the Royal Institute @rigb.org - Metamorphosis - eggs to excellence
Talking maggots at the Royal Institution!!
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social
Many true flies (Diptera) feed on aphids and other sucking insects, making them beneficial predators!
⏰ Today's the last day to register for the field meeting during the "Early Bird" period! ⏰
Another day, another jaw-dropping little weirdo insect. The video is very cool. thekidshouldseethis.com/post/tiny-pe...
People hate flies, but don't realize getting rid of flies would get rid of
- chocolate (pollinator is a fly) and other plants
- poop and decaying corpses everywhere (bacterial decomposition slower/smelly)
- deweeders and pest parasitoids
𝘈𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘦 is a newly discovered species of wingless #fly from China that lives in a very specific home: the base of a horseshoe bat's ear! 🦇
Access the full study here: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1273.183551
@ucph.bsky.social
#bat #parasite #endoparasite #morphology
One open flower on the left with a red-eyed fly pollinator, one flower connected on the right, opening, against rust-colored background.
Happy Fly-day. We made it! 🪰
Fly on Oakleaf fleabane
(Erigeron quercifolius)
at Crew flint pen strand trails
in Bonita Springs, Florida 3-20-26
Wildflower study 3
#FlyDay #ArtYear #eck #macro #photography #macroPhotography #nature #wildflowers #flowers #diptera #flies #florida #art
🚨 Early bird registration ends April 1st - only one week left!!! 🚨
Last day to register is May 20th.
Registration: dipterists.org/field_meetin...
Meeting info: dipterists.org/field_meetin...
The official website for the 11th International Congress of Dipterology (ICDXI) has launched! icd11.biol.pmf.hr
We'd love to see you in Croatia in 2027. 🇭🇷🪰🦟
A photo of an orange T-shirt featuring a black, realistic drawing of a large bristly fly. The words “The Fly Trap” are above it and “San Francisco” below. The Fly Trap is a bar/restaurant dating back to the late 1800s in San Francisco.
Yesterday we met friends in San Francisco and after visiting the aquarium, had a fantastic dinner at The Fly Trap, which I’d not previously heard of despite the fact that it’s been a going concern since 1883. Did I pick it because of the name? Obviously. Did I buy a t-shirt? Of course. 🪰
It’s an excellent feeling to identify flies
Muscidae aren’t my group so the @ukmuscidae.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social workshop is brilliant for me
Using both @entmikeashworth.bsky.social and James McGills new keys, this is Polietes hirticus - a northern spp (this one from Cumbria)
Only a couple days left to apply for this course!
We hope you consider it and we'd love to see you there for this amazing opportunity 😊🦟🎉
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Illustrated logo with a square bottom and round top, light blue background showing a lake and trees in the background. Three flies, a robber fly, midge, and crane fly sit below the Dipterists Society logo. Bottom wording says "Itasca Biological Station"
Photo of a lake with a rocky shoreline, with clouds and trees in the background
We're excited to announce registration is open for the 19th Dipterists Society Field Meeting, to be held June 15–19th at the Itasca Biological Station in northern Minnesota!
For more information & to submit talks please visit: dipterists.org/field_meetin...
We look forward to seeing you there!
Just one week left to apply to Fly School IV!!!
The cover of The new ‘Photographic guide to flies of Britain and Ireland’
An open page from the new ‘Photographic guide to flies of Britain and Ireland’. Text for each species on the left with beautiful macro photos on the right.
Oh hello… it’s here! The new ‘Photographic guide to flies of Britain and Ireland’.
Steven Falk (not sure if he’s on BS?)
@gailashton.bsky.social
@rdimond.bsky.social
Peter Creed
Forward by @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
It is an astonishing piece of work for such a diverse taxonomic group.
#diptera
sooooo... WHO is NEXT?!? 😱🙈😭
🔥 #Diptera unit 🦟🪰 at #CNC in Ottawa under threat!!! 🔥
Plz support the colleagues!!! Read the Open Letter and sign the petition here: diptera.de/CNC_Diptera/
#taxonomy #biodiversity #collection #museum #entomology #gnatsarecool #fliesarecooltoo #Canada #insects
A yellow round sticker with the words Let It Fly surrounded by 5 flies
Let it fly!! Check out this awesome fly art from jyoon_bug on instagram! 🪰❤️ #Diptera #FliesAreAwesome
Macro photo of a small black soldier fly with fine silvery hairs standing in the middle of a yellow aster, its long proboscis sunk deep into the flower. The fly’s head is cone-shaped and tapers to a sharp point. (Nemotelus kansensis, Texas)
Heartbreaking: The Worst Insect You Know Has a Great Point
REMINDER: The deadline to apply for Fly School is 28 Feb.
Visit dipterists.org/fly_school.h... for info & application.
Photo by @bertonemyia.bsky.social
digital illustration of a long, hairy, yellowish-green fly with orange and black legs and white tuft on the end of its abdomen. below is a white egg sack with tiny white larvae emerging saying "しお!"
#flybuary day 4! promachus yesonicus is called シオヤアブ (shioyaabu, salt peddler "horsefly") in japanese because of the male's white tail. promachus are huge robber flies and are one of the few genera of asilids that lay frothy white egg masses. buy his salt or else.
#invertebrates #sciart
