Thanks to everyone who made #FlyWeek such a success!! We couldn't do it without you 🪰💕
3
1
0
0
Hashtag
#Flyweek
Advertisement · 728 × 90
🎨 Just published in Fly Times 74!
One of my illustrations to celebrate the fascinating world of Diptera, inspired by fieldwork, taxonomy, and a touch of humor.
Grateful to @teamdiptera.bsky.social for sharing it!
🪰 View it here: dipterists.org/assets/PDF/fly…
#Diptera #Entomology #FlyWeek
7
2
0
1
Nuclei (orange) and the cell membrane (α-spectrin; teal) are shown in adipocytes.
#FlyWeek fun for #FluorescenceFriday, nuclei and α-spectrin are shown in this stack of adipocytes from adult Drosophila 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology
86
12
1
0
Several tiny flies that were parts of a large cloud of gnats. They are flying with front legs up like they are calling a touchdown in American football.
Wheee! Males gnats swarm to make themselves more conspicuous so females can find them and mate. So if you find a cloud of gnats in your travels, say hello to those lonely fellas looking for a nice lady gnat.
(Tribe Hippelatini?) Ecuador #FlyWeek
177
23
13
0
Continuing #flyweek with what I think is a Zodion sp. Found it completely still on a leaf. Likely a bee parasite.
🪲🪳 #Conopidae #Invert #macrophotography #entomology #diptera 🌿
43
2
1
0
My #FlyWeek contribution:
The Variety of Testis Shapes in Pomace Fly Species
Aren't they beatiful?🌈🪰🔬
An old-school sci-poster meets modern confocal imaging!
#Drosophila testis diversity fascinated even Curt Stern (yes, the human genetics textbook guy!) back in the 1930s.
#microscopy #insects
35
8
2
2
I want to dissect all their testes and stain them with phalloidin to see what shape they have and how muscles are organized!!! Is that a weird first thought after seeing this picture? #flyweek
7
1
3
0
#WorldBeeFlyDay #FlyWeek
with international travel, got my days mixed up - here is my post for World Bee Fly Day (1 day too late) - Apatomyza sp. or Crocidium sp. (Bombyliidae: Crocidiinae) from Namibia - observed + collected October 2024 with @ento-allan.bsky.social
#TeamDiptera
7
1
0
0
A small black flu with green eyes perched on the end of a woody reed.
A stout black fly with yellow fuzz on the abdomen and face. This is a robber fly that look a bit like a bumblebee mimic. It is standing on a leaf.
A yellow fly with green eyes and black wings with geometric clear patches. It is standing on the edge of a leaf.
A bronze fly with eyes that have wild wavy markings on them. It is crawling around on goldenrod.
I've been slacking for #FlyWeek so here are a few fun flies!
White-faced Micropanther (Cerotainia albipilosa), Black-tailed Laphria (Laphria flavicollis), Giant Ragweed Fruit Fly (Euaresta festiva), Wavy Mucksucker (Orthonevra nitida)
275
37
9
1
It's #FlyWeek ?!?
2
0
0
0
Hey, is #FlyWeek still on?? :D I just spent all day adding flies to #DuoNat, hoping that now I can finally get a feeling for how they are all related. Maybe so can you :)
5
0
0
0
A huge thank you to everyone who celebrated #FlyWeek with us this year! ❤️🪰✨ What a stupendous, fly filled week!
7
0
0
0
fly specimen on insect pin
fly specimen on insect pin
2 fly specimens on insect pin
#FlyWeek
lesser known but very interesting southern African assassin fly (Asilidae) genera in KwaZulu-Natal Museum collection - Irwinomyia Londt, 1994 (I. aurea + I. argentata) and Empodiodes Oldroyd, 1972 (E. melanoscopaeus)
#asiloidflies
18
3
1
0
A green bottle fly (Lucilia sp.) in a top down macro shot. They are on a gray plastic (a garbage can) that really shows of the metallic green of their exoskeleton and their red compound eyes. The fly is facing right of frame.
I had no idea that it’s #flyweek
Green bottle #fly - Lucilia sp.
(Shot in my back yard 5-4-25) 🪲🪳🪰 #invert #ento #macrophotography #photography #insect #bug #bugsky #wildlife #wildlifephotography #animals
24
3
0
0
#ElkeDagEenInsect
Did you know … #Flyweek
6
1
0
0
White fly with velvety body surface, transparent wings, black eyes, and five black marks on thorax on a white flower.
Maybe I just missed #WorldBeeFlyDay but here is the prettiest one I’ve found, Apolysis quinquenotata (I think) from Sevilleta NWR near Albuquerque. #Flyweek #insects #bugsky
41
6
1
0
Close up of a brown coloured fly with large eyes and translucent wings
Close up of a brown coloured fly with large eyes and translucent wings that is cleaning its face
One last #fly for the end of #FlyWeek
A horsefly from the genus Dasybasis in the family Tabanidae
#ausinverts #wildoz #inverts #bugsky
19
3
1
0
A mall, fluffy moth like fly sitting on a leaf. Its thorax is hairy grey with black wings and a few small patches of iridescent pale blue scales.
A small black fly sits on the bark of a tree facing down. Its eyes and face are mesmerizing with a pari of digital looking lines running across each eye.
Flies mating on a leaf. They have a large white face and jowls and small maroon eyes. The male is on top and is gently holding her eyes.
A thick yellow green fly with large maroon eyes rests on the underside of a thin leaf.
For the final night of #FlyWeek, just some cool-ass #flies.
moth fly #Psychodidae: #Setomima
aulacigastrid fly #Aulacigastridae
mating thick-headed flies #Conopidae: #Myopa
horse fly #Tabanidae: #Chlorotabanus
52
12
2
0
Anastoechus sp, bee flies sitting in the rain
A bee fly sitting in a hand
A bee fly on a woman's nose
Lordotus sp. Sitting on a creosote bush
Happy World Bee Fly Day! I'll take any chance to show off these cuties we found hiding out in the Creosote during a rain storm at Beaver Dam Wash in UT! Lordotus and lots of Anastoechus (iirc). #FlyWeek #Fliesarecool #WorldBeeFlyDay
28
10
1
0
A fly with a blue abdomen, yellow thorax, head, and legs, red eyes, and clear wings with black markings. It has a hammerhead shaped head with red eyes at the ends of eye stalks. The fly is standing on the underside of a leaf.
Hello new followers, in addition to birds I spend the warmer months chasing bugs. Here is a fun one for #FlyWeek, a stalk-eyed fly found in the Ecuadorian cloud forest.
(Richardia stylops), El Septimo Paraiso Lodge, Ecuador
541
70
17
4
Happy World Bee Fly Day! Here is one of the most colorful bee flies I’ve encountered, Zinnomyia brincki. Collected in Namibia.
#FlyWeek #WorldBeeFlyDay #TeamDiptera
32
9
1
0
Last day of the #FlyWeek for the Scatophagidae family...because its role is basic for the ecosystem 💩💩💩
4
1
0
0
Since it's already the end of #FlyWeek (!) I though I would share this painting I did of Rhamphomyia longicauda dance flies (inspired by Matisse's Dance (I), of course) for Dr. Rosalind Murray's #LaurierBiology departmental seminar back in 2022! #Diptera #SciArt
12
4
0
0
tangle-veined flies on insect pins
tangle-veined flies on insect pins
tangle-veined flies on insect pins
tangle-veined flies on insect pins
#FlyWeek
some of the coolest flies, I think, are tangle-veined flies (Nemestrinidae) - here 4 species of Prosoeca in KwaZulu-Natal Museum collection
Prosoeca peringueyi
Prosoeca umbra
Prosoeca longipennis
Prosoeca olivacea
important parasites on other insects + keystone pollinators
20
4
0
0
Simultaneously celebrating May 2025 Gall Week, #Flyweek, and #midgeMonday with this observation.
#diptera #insects #bugsky
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
8
1
0
0
As it is #FlyWeek (!), here's a painting I did a long, long, time ago for my friend (& at-the-time) post-doc labmate Urban Friberg (as Nils Holgersson, on a fruit fly instead of the traditional goose). #DrosLife #Drosophila
16
3
1
1
Side view of a heavy bodied fly sits on a white background facing left. It has a furry gray body with patches of white with small black spots. Its eye is large and has a large red marking that looks like an exclamation point.
Top view of a heavy bodied fly sits on a white background facing left. It has a furry gray body with patches of white with small black spots. Its eyes are large and they has a large red marking on each.
A heavy bodied fly sits on a white background facing the camera. It's tilting its head that has a pattern similar to a Dalmatian, white with black spots. It's face shows tiny antennae and tiny mouthparts, giving it a cartoonish look.
A large thick maggot on a white background facing left. It's body is dingy as it's covered by numerous small black thorn-like spines, each curving backwards.
Can't have Cuterebra without the CUTE 😍
But watch out if you're a small mammal! #Maggots really get under your skin 🤮
rabbit #bot #fly #Oestridae #Cuterebra buccata; larva likely squrrel bot fly, C. emasculator
#FlyWeek #Diptera
233
50
7
1
A large horsefly whose abdomen is distended with blood sits on a mountain mint leaf. The fly has green eyes with subtle red stripes and a golden yellow fuzzy body, noticeably reddish where the abdomen has stretched.
Another fly for #FlyWeek:
A blood-engorged Green-eyed Horse Fly (Tabanus fulvulus), Alamance County, North Carolina.
#inverts #insects #macro
34
2
0
0
Impossible to avoid these neighbours, open a window and they are in without hesitation. Musca domestica for the 6th day of celebration of the #FlyWeek
2
1
0
0
4
0
1
0