Somehow I couldn’t reach the #Dipteran #Evolution community with my question… so maybe I need something controversial 😄
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐲𝐳𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜!
#Phylogeny #TreeOfLife #Drosophila #Diptera
(… 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸)
A gnat on a wall that is being illuminated with the white light of a flashlight. The gnat has a green abdomen with a prominent tip at the end, and a tiny black head with huge black eyes. Its thorax is also black. Its thin legs start green but turn black. The halteres turn blackish gray at the ends/bulbs.
The same gnat as in the previous image, but now it has fitted itself into the ridge of a flashlight's head. The light allows its facial details to be a bit more visible, but not all that much more. We can discern how small this gnat is in real life by how large the dust particles all over it are in comparison with its body.
In frame, the face of a flashlight shines its pale beam of light unto the little gnat, which is perched on the wall by its very skinny legs.
Gnat on the wall, closer up, in somewhat dimmer lighting due to the flashlight's light being on the corner instead of focused on the gnat. In comparison to the other photos, this photo gives us the clearest view of the shape of the insect's large compound eyes.
I thought this little gnat flying around in my room was very cute... my camera does not have a flash, so I try my best to illuminate with a trusty flashlight, for now...
#dipteran #bugsky
On the surface of a very soggy old log, there is a small creature that resembles a very shiny rotund yellow droplet-like blob with a black tiny head in front. It can be noted that on the rightmost and leftmost areas of the blob close to the head, there is one tiny dark dot each.
The same yellow blob creature, as previously photographed. There is not much change in this photograph than in the previous one.
Instead of facing us head-on like in the previous photos, we view the blob of frass from the side now, the head out of focus and obscured. To an unsuspecting eye, the creature could pass for some kind of slime mold growing on this wet log.
This picture isn't all too different from the first two.
Epicypta fungus gnat larvae. That shiny yellow stuff is actually made out of its poop, or frass (the more correct term for insect excreta); the larvae molds the frass into shape, encasing in a mucus layer, and sheaths its body within as a protective disguise. It inches along slow.
#bugsky #dipteran
Parasite of the Month in this collection: #Entomophthora #muscae, a #fungal pathogen that infects, behaviorally manipulates, & kills a range of #dipteran hosts, authored by Carolyn Elya. @harvard.edu
www.cell.com/trends/paras...
#macroaddicts
#Dipteran Unknown 🪰
This #fly landed on my boot whilst on a boat cruise visiting #tanjungputing #nationalpark in #borneo #indonesia
Some dipterans have very cool #patterns in their compound eyes. These #eyes reminds me of #deerfly or #horsefly
I.D. welcome
#macroaddicts #macro #nature #wildlife
