Bryan Wright · @catselbow
753 followers · 5498 posts · Server fosstodon.org

A Tiger Bee Fly (Xenox tigrinus) peeps in to see what I'm doing. As I was photographing her, I could see her antennae swiveling around, sniffing me.

#fly #flies #Bombyliidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #photography

Last updated 1 year ago

Bryan Wright · @catselbow
570 followers · 3628 posts · Server fosstodon.org
Albert Cardona · @albertcardona
1646 followers · 1556 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

@biodiversitypix

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."

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4

#Bombyliidae #BeeFly #entomology

Last updated 2 years ago

Sabine · @canyakker
607 followers · 1790 posts · Server mas.to

Around the beginning of May the snow will be gone and the first flowers in the forest (Trailing Arbutus) will be open to feed the Bee Flies.
Still two months to go. It's a sunny -23 C this morning 🥶.

#macrophotography #photography #nature #insects #Bombyliidae #flyfriday #flies

Last updated 2 years ago

Bryan Wright · @catselbow
379 followers · 1937 posts · Server fosstodon.org

This skinny bombyliid looks as sad as the daisy he's perched on. Poor fellow!

#fly #flies #Bombyliidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #nature #photography #macrophotography

Last updated 2 years ago

Bryan Wright · @catselbow
335 followers · 1575 posts · Server fosstodon.org

A bee-fly (Bombylius major) on a daisy, enjoying nectar and sunshine. Bee-flies are adorable, with their furry body and long pointy snout. The look like cartoon bees.

#fly #flies #Bombyliidae #diptera #insects #arthropods #nature #photography

Last updated 2 years ago

Bryan Wright · @catselbow
210 followers · 782 posts · Server fosstodon.org

A for . This is Geron calvus. He looks more like a mosquito than the chubby bumblebee shape I think of bombyliids having. Also, why do these have such long mouthparts? He doesn't need them here.

#Bombyliidae #fly #InverteFest #flies #diptera #insect #nature #photography

Last updated 2 years ago

Plants EFSA · @Plants_EFSA
13 followers · 690 posts · Server respublicae.eu

RT @Bertonemyia: I wish people would think of this insect & the many other beautiful out there, instead of recoiling in disgust at the mention of the word ""

I mean, just look at its fluffy white butt!!!! 🥰

bee fly leucoprocta ()
GA, USA

🐦🔗: nitter.eu/Plants_EFSA/status/1

#Diptera #fly #Ogcodocera #Bombyliidae

Last updated 3 years ago