Elisa Coghlan · @asile
241 followers · 605 posts · Server zirk.us

Happy ! The beautiful bee-like European Drone Fly.

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lenahallesaale · @lenahallesaale
263 followers · 972 posts · Server mastodon.green
lenahallesaale · @lenahallesaale
263 followers · 965 posts · Server mastodon.green

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Steven Bodzin, pun-ctuator · @stevenbodzin
506 followers · 961 posts · Server thepit.social

Happy from this compost fly, Ptecticus trivittatus, seen in New York City. inaturalist.org/observations/5

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Ben S · @twizzt
259 followers · 603 posts · Server sauropods.win

Perhaps this is actually a better shot. You can see the spine on its back a little better and its eyes are more in focus.

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Ben S · @twizzt
259 followers · 602 posts · Server sauropods.win

A really rare living breathing flying piece of turquoise. Happy

It actually is a really rare soldier fly in the geunus Euparyphus.

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Jer 🚵🏼 · @jerzone
215 followers · 2173 posts · Server techhub.social

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Mieke Siemons · @miekesiemons
177 followers · 1707 posts · Server nerdculture.de
Albert Cardona · @albertcardona
2025 followers · 3951 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

@bug_gwen

How cool. I never managed to identify these maggots from a microbial mat in Yellowstone National Park. By comparing with the larvae of alkaline flies in the video, I see they also have spiky prolegs–perhaps members of the same family, since most dipterans don't have them at all.

inaturalist.org/observations/2

Digging a bit, I have this other adjacent observation of adult flies walking on those waters inaturalist.org/observations/2 labeled as Ephydridae ... they are likely related if not the same species.

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Albert Cardona · @albertcardona
2026 followers · 3938 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

Hornet mimic hoverfly, Volucella zonaria inaturalist.org/observations/1 which not only resembles (somewhat) a hornet, but also lays its eggs in a hornet nest and its larvae grow up as commensals therein en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volucell Badass!

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nastusia · @nastusia
240 followers · 1390 posts · Server sunbeam.city

@nev there is a ?? Then I have to share my today's observation.

I think it is a Tachina magnicornis. I love this spikes! A real punk fly!

better quality here: inaturalist.org/observations/1

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lenahallesaale · @lenahallesaale
250 followers · 770 posts · Server mastodon.green

Happy ! This is a bee fly, probably Villa hottentotta, sitting on a Watling Street thistle.

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Steven Bodzin, pun-ctuator · @stevenbodzin
499 followers · 940 posts · Server thepit.social

For here are the psychedelic compound eyes of the common, friendly, and relatively clean black soldier fly Hermetia illucens inaturalist.org/observations/5

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Takako 🐀 · @otterX
188 followers · 1238 posts · Server mindly.social

Robber fly?

It was buzzing by the window, so I relocated outside.

lol

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Cary · @crenquis
408 followers · 4050 posts · Server mstdn.io

Happy
Here's a robber fly; Bee Killer -- Mallafora fautrix.
I guess they will eat just about any flying insect, but prefer honey/bumble bees.

#flyday #mallafora #california #robberfly #beekiller

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Ben S · @twizzt
234 followers · 547 posts · Server sauropods.win

Bonus

Can't really tell you anything about this bizzare little fella. I believe it's a tephritid. Let me know if you have an idea of who it is.

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Ben S · @twizzt
233 followers · 543 posts · Server sauropods.win

Happy

An interesting picture winged fly from the Colombian cloud forest. This is probably complex Paragorgopus mallea.

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Chris Price · @studiochris
748 followers · 2286 posts · Server sfba.social

Two slices of focus at f2.8.

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Ben S · @twizzt
188 followers · 475 posts · Server sauropods.win

Happy This shot cost me dearly and I nearly dropped my camera. It was rushed and therefore poorly lit and framed, but those eyes are cool as hell. If you listen close enough, you just might hear the next word that came out of my mouth...

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Last updated 1 year ago

neville park · @nev
885 followers · 4343 posts · Server flipping.rocks

It's ! Here's a picture-winged fly (family Ulidiidae) I recently found in a community garden.

#flydayfriday #flyday #flyfriday #insects #flies #Diptera #Ulidiidae

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