A sundew spreads it’s sticky hairs (trichomes) out to snare small passing insects, particularly flies.
It’s a sticky time of year in the greenhouse.
If you’re a small #fly you take your life in your haltares if you try to fly around here!
#diptera are food! 🪰
#CarnivorousPlants
A photo of a small black fly resting on a white daffodil flower.
A male fly belonging to the family Bibionidae.
I see these little guys everywhere during spring.
#entomology #insect #bug #fly #diptera
First round of malaise trap setups from this past weekend. The vastly under-collected Colorado Plateau (at least for ichneumonids) is one of my main focal areas this year. This first spot is near Kanab, Utah.
#ichneumonidae #entomology #malaisetrap #insect #hymenoptera #diptera #trackerwasps
🦟Four new #crane #fly species of the genus Dasymallomyia described from China: 𝘋. 𝘣𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢, 𝘋. 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘢, 𝘋. 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘢 & 𝘋. 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢 bring the world total to 13 species. A key to all world species is provided. ⤵️
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#newspecies #diptera #taxonomy
Holly Leaf Miner, Phytomyza ilicis
Holly Leaf Miner, Phytomyza ilicis
Holly Leaf Miner, Phytomyza ilicis, with leaf mine.
Holly Leaf Miner, Phytomyza ilicis.
Mine collected 25.02.2026, fly emerged 02.04 2026.
#Diptera #VC55 #flies
Side view of a brassy coloured Hoverfly on a green leaf edged with red.
Male Epistrophe eligans hoverfly on a Bramble leaf in Ely last weekend. #WildWebsWednesday #Hoverflies #Diptera
A digital painting of a male Ectophasia crassipennis, a fly with a yellow and brown body, bright red eyes, and dull brown wings.
Sometimes you're in a shit mood, decide to paint a bug to change that, and end up still in a shit mood but with a painting of a fly kljhgfdghjkl
#sciart #Ectophasia #digitalpainting #artsky #diptera
Three of the many fluffy moth-looking flies seen on a recent walk. A species of Psychodidae, but can’t be sure which one.
#files #diptera #UKwildlife
British Myriapod and Isopod Group Newsletter
There's lots of great practical advice in the latest British Myriapod and Isopod Group Newsletter: bmig.org.uk/view/resourc...
#Myriapods #Isopods #Diptera #Woodlice #Millipedes
A scare Picture-winged fly (fam. Tephritidae) in my S. Cambs garden yesterday.
A female Chetostoma curvinerve (Honeysuckle Picturewing).
Identified with the aid of the excellent 'A photographic guide to flies of Britain & Ireland' (2026), and confirmed on the UK Diptera FB group.
#Diptera
Thelaira solivago
NatureSpot Photo of the Month March 2026
The NatureSpot Photo of the Month for March is this series of images of Thelaira solivago, taken by NatureSpot contributor Dylan. Learn more: www.naturespot.org/node/265729
#Leicester #Leicestershire #Rutland #Diptera #flies
Grote kommazweefvlieg | Lunuled aphideater
(Eupeodes luniger), vrouw | female
#amsterdamslotervaart #vlieg #fly #diptera #insectphotography
A black hoverfly with characteristic lemon yellow hook-shaped bars on the abdomen.
The garden is coming to life! Just saw and missed my first Dark Edged #Beefly (Bombylius major). However did catch a lovely Eupeodes luniger #Hoverfly on the pear blossom.
#diptera
#Syrphidae
#Bombyliidae
#enmology
#GardenWildlife
A photo of a shiny blue fly resting on a green leaf with yellow spots. It is also sunny.
From last week, a photo I took of this pretty bluebottle fly resting on a leaf during a sunny day :)
Genus Calliphora.
#entomology #fly #insect #bug #diptera
A photo of a fly resting on a green leaf with yellow spots. The fly is orange and shiny with two bigs eyes and black markings on its abdomen. It has wings folded against its side.
A pretty hover fly from last week.
Epistrophe eligans I believe, the spring epistrophe, but I may be wrong.
#diptera #insect #entomology #bug
#NEW #ALEXANDRIA #OHIO
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#BIOLOGY OF #DIPTERA
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#KOMARAPALAYAM
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Being cool and overcast has its advantages! This Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major) was happy to pose on my finger tip yesterday in SE Shropshire #Diptera #BeeFly #Shropshire
In a hyperdiverse group it shouldn’t be surprising that #flies keep evolving new and unexpected strategies… but a new way to fly?
Flying like dandelion seeds (or have you ever seen those wind tunnel experiences where you can try freefall?)
#diptera
#entomology
#insects
A shiny brassy coloured Hoverfly on a green Bramble leaf with red edging.
So shiny and new. Male Epistrophe eligans hoverfly in Ely today. #Hoverflies #Diptera 📷 #photography
Close up pic of a male house fly with an orange abdomen, dark grey thorax and reddish eyes resting on the pink/black-coloured stone wall of my house that is also dusted with lots of little yellow spots of lichen
My first use of the fabulous new photographic guide to flies (Falk et al) suggests that the fly resting on the wall of my house this afternoon could be the Orange-bellied Bristleshin, Phaonia subventa… #Diptera
A close-up of a wing of Merodon equestris, the Narcissus bulb fly, a hover fly that resembles a bumble bee. One of the veins (or lines) in the wing has a squiggle or bend.
Seems to be present in every species of Eristalini and Merodontini I've personally observed. Not present in Milesiini or Syrphinae from what I've seen.
Haven't photographed a live hover fly recently, but here's a Merodon equestris specimen I worked with:
#Syrphidae #Diptera #hoverfly #macro
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
Dark-edged Bee-fly, Bombylius major, this afternoon in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul Kedington #Suffolk
#BeeFlyWatch #Diptera
Detail from a book showing an illustration of a Dark-edged bee-fly, annotated by hand as ‘Bombylius Major. L:’
Someone updated this copy of Thomas Moffet’s ‘Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum’ (1634) with the Linnæan name for the Dark-edged bee-fly, Bombylius major (Linnæus, 1758) and other insects. 🪰💚
Rare books #BeeFlyWatch, M.14.42 @theul.bsky.social. #Diptera
In Issue 1 of the #EMM for 2026: new species, new host-plants, distributional records, and novel biological observations covering #Lepidoptera, #Hymenoptera, #Diptera, and #Coleoptera.
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A silhouette of a mosquito against a blue sky. The first two legs are extended forward, and the antennas are shaped like semicircles of thin hairs or feathery fibres.
This mosquito on my (dirty) window has cool feathery antennas.
#invertebrates #insects #diptera
GBE | Tachinid Endoparasitoid Flies do not Rely on Domesticated Viruses, Unlike Multiple Hymenopteran Lineages
Oukkal et al. find that, unlike endoparasitoid hymenopterans, endoparasitoidism in tachinid flies is not associated with viral domestication, possibly due to differences in venom use and host immune system avoidance.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag022
#genome #evolution #diptera #virus
Female Scaeva silenitica
Female Epistrophe eligans
Female Syrphus torvus
Ovipositing female Meliscaeva auricollis
Four of the hoverflies seen in my S. Cambridgeshire garden over the weekend:
Scaeva silenitica
Epistrophe eligans
Syrphus torvus
Meliscaeva auricollis
#Diptera #Flies
Bombylius major on the Clematis montana flowers
Hairy-footed Flower-bee at Pulmonaria officinalis flowers
Yesterday in the garden #Shrewsbury both the first Dark-bordered Bee-fly (Bombylius major) of the year and a Hairy-footed Flower-bee (Anthophora plumipes) or two buzzing about the lungwort and comfrey flowers. Top critters #ukwildlife #diptera @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @teamdiptera.bsky.social
