Jill Orme · @OrmeJks
1009 followers · 839 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk
A dotted bee-fly feeding on muscari.
#BeeFly #BombyliusDiscolor #DottedBeeFly #muscari #GrapeHyacinth #nature #wildlife #macro #CanonR5
#BeeFly #bombyliusdiscolor #dottedbeefly #muscari #grapehyacinth #nature #wildlife #macro #canonr5
Jill Orme · @OrmeJks
1003 followers · 832 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk
Dotted bee-fly (Bombylius doscolor), feeding from pulmonaria.
#BeeFly #DottedBeeFly #BombyliusDiscolor #nature #wildlife #macro #CanonR5
#BeeFly #dottedbeefly #bombyliusdiscolor #nature #wildlife #macro #canonr5
discovering nature · @discoveringnature
136 followers · 347 posts · Server norden.social
Yesterday I saw my first bee fly of this year 🙂
#BeeFly #nature #insects #naturephotography
#BeeFly #nature #insects #naturephotography
SK53 · @SK53
100 followers · 325 posts · Server en.osm.townThe second clip shows a Honey Bee disturbed on Ceanothus by a Dark-edged Bee-fly.
Spring has started quite slowly: still relatively few nectar sources and daytime temperatures need to be a bit higher too.2 of 2
#ApisMellifera #BombyliusMajor #HoneyBee #BeeFly #Ceanothus
#Pollinators
#apismellifera #bombyliusmajor #honeybee #BeeFly #ceanothus #pollinators
AdventureAnna · @Anna_Scharnagl
210 followers · 436 posts · Server mstdn.social
In appreciation of bee fly feets.
#JoshuaTree #BeeFly #berkeleyadventures
#berkeleyadventures #BeeFly #JoshuaTree
Albert Cardona · @albertcardona
1646 followers · 1556 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz
ONE OF THE BEE FLIES (Sparnopolius fulvus, Wied.)
"No butterfly or any other creature of the air could be more beautiful than this dream of early summer. The black velvet body, into which the sunlight sank and disappeared, the fringe of golden hairs along its sides, the steel gray, myriad-facet eyes of which its head was made, and the delicately formed wings, so thin that the light in passing through them was refracted into rainbow tints, made it seem to me more beautiful than almost any of those gorgeous forms of insect life which sometimes fill the clearings in Brazilian forests. It does seem strange that such a thing as this should live its other life a parasite grub within the larva of some caterpillar, or in the egg-case of some grasshoppers but so it seems to do. It spends its childhood as a disease, and its mating days as a dainty fly among the nectar-hearing flowers."
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4428248#page/160/mode/1up
#Bombyliidae #BeeFly #entomology
David Mcmillan · @hermitsholiday
544 followers · 456 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Dark-edged Bee-Fly in flight #BeeFly #fly #insect #insectsofmastodon #insectphotography #naturephotography #macrophotography #Perthshire #Scotland
#scotland #perthshire #macrophotography #naturephotography #insectphotography #insectsofmastodon #insect #fly #BeeFly
Fiona · @GreenishFinger
493 followers · 495 posts · Server mas.to
Looking back to earlier this year and a capture I got of an amazing bee fly drinking from forget me nots - mmm dreaming of springtime! #NatureAdventCalendar #AdventCalendar #BeeFly #Nature #Flowers #pollinators #Photography #Garden #ForgetMeNot #Art
#art #forgetmenot #garden #photography #pollinators #flowers #nature #BeeFly #AdventCalendar #natureadventcalendar
David Mcmillan · @hermitsholiday
134 followers · 68 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Dark-edged Bee-Fly Bombylius major on Cardamine pretenses #Beefly #flower #insect #bug #wildflowers #macro #macrophotography #Naturephography #Perthshire #Scotland
#scotland #perthshire #Naturephography #macrophotography #macro #wildflowers #bug #insect #flower #BeeFly