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**David Epithet** @David_Epithet@mstdn.social · 1d

David Epithet @David_Epithet@mstdn.social

Spotted soldier fly (Stratiomys maculosa), Lakeview Mountains, California, today
#nature #NaturePhotography #bugs #bugstodon #flies #diptera #SouthernCalifornia

A black and yellow fly, resting on a narrow, strap-like leaf. The fly has a broad, black abdomen with large, pale yellow spots along the margins.

The same fly, with transparent wings folded, resting on my fingertip.

**Ashes and Dust** @friesen5000@mstdn.ca · 3d *

3d *

Ashes and Dust @friesen5000@mstdn.ca

There is a species of fly whose larvae live inside shed moose antlers. Apparently the males camp out on the antler and jockey for prime positions (ie spots where females will want to deposit their eggs). Not sure this is proper Wikipedia verbiage but it is notable: "the males are astonishingly bellicose". This world is nuts. #TIL #diptera #insects #ecology
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protopiophila_litigata

en.m.wikipedia.orgProtopiophila litigata - Wikipedia

**Albert Cardona** @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 6 *

Apr 6 *

Albert Cardona @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz

Maggots. We really don't give then enough credit. They can do so much with so little:

"Sensation of electric fields in the Drosophila melanogaster larva", Tadres et al. 2025 (Matthieu Louis' lab).
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00299-4

#neuroscience #Drosophila #ElectricSensing

**Albert Cardona** @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz · Apr 5 *

Apr 5 *

Albert Cardona @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz

Front legs, who needs them right? It's not only mantis who dispense of them for walking. But to be fair midgets don't really ever walk. So the sensory neurons at the tips of their legs (hence flies can taste with their feet) may here have become part of a second pair of antennae.

Microtendipes sp. midget in full double antennae mode. The bushiness of its actual antennae suggests it's a male.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/268734651
#iNaturalist #Diptera #midgets #entomology

iNaturalistGenus MicrotendipesMicrotendipes from Hedgerley Close, Cambridge, Anglaterra, GB on April 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM by Albert Cardona

**Bath Nature** @BathNature@ecoevo.social · Apr 1

Apr 1

Bath Nature @BathNature@ecoevo.social

Dark-edged Bee-fly today near #Bath #Somerset #UK
#Nature #Wildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureCommunity #Insect #Insects #Fly #Diptera #Spring

A brown hairy fly with a long proboscus and dark edges to the wings. Fly is in flight, low down in some grassland

**Bath Nature** @BathNature@ecoevo.social · Mar 31

Mar 31

Bath Nature @BathNature@ecoevo.social

Dotted Bee-fly (Bombylius discolor) in flight today in #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#Nature #Wildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureCommunity #Insect #Insects #Fly #Diptera #Spring

A Dotted Bee-fly - a hairy brown fly, the abdomen has a black tip. It has a long proboscis and wings with dots on them. The insect is in flight.

**Colin Purrington** @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks · Mar 31

Mar 31

Colin Purrington @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks

I recharged my mosquito traps yesterday: fresh water, some leaves, then a sticky card in the upper part to make sure the pregnant females don't escape. Wish stores would sell these so that more people used them. #mosquitoes #mosquito #insect #diptera

Four black buckets filled with water and old tree leaves, with funnel-like lids in front. Half the lids have a clear dome.

**Bath Nature** @BathNature@ecoevo.social · Mar 29 *

Mar 29 *

Bath Nature @BathNature@ecoevo.social

Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major). People have various ways of marking the start of spring, the appearance of these is mine. In #Bath #Somerset #UK
#Nature #Wildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureCommunity #Insects #Insect #Fly #Diptera

A Dark-edged Bee-fly. A fly that looks like a hairy brown bee with a long proboscis and chocolate-brown edges to the wings. Fly is resting on a bramble leaf.

**Albert Cardona** @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz · Mar 29

Mar 29

Albert Cardona @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz

First bee fly of the season: Bombylius major. Cambridge, UK.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/267537047
#iNaturalist #Bombylidae #beeflies #Diptera #entomology

iNaturalistGreater Bee Fly (Bombylius major)Greater Bee Fly from Hedgerley Close, Cambridge, Anglaterra, GB on March 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM by Albert Cardona

**Bryan Wright** @catselbow@fosstodon.org · Mar 22

Mar 22

Bryan Wright @catselbow@fosstodon.org

Galls on a fallen red oak leaf, made by gall midges (Cecidomyiidae).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecidomyiidae

Standing at the beginning of another Spring, we look down on a brown-bronze surface of last year's fallen leaves. An oak leaf fills most of our view, lying upside down and showing us its strong veins and shiny, leathery underside, reminding us somehow of leather armchairs and pipe smoke. Clustered around the veins are galls shaped like maggots, looking as though they were busily crawling up and down these vein-highways. But as we watch we realize they're motionless, just sculpted shapes in bas relief.

#plants #trees #flies

**Enrique Gil Alcubilla** @Enriquegil@mastodon.social · Mar 20

Mar 20

Enrique Gil Alcubilla @Enriquegil@mastodon.social

Trypetoptera punctulata. Cópula de este diminuto díptero, de apenas 5 mm. de longitud y distribución mediterránea. Los adultos pueden localizarse de mayo a octubre.
#insectos #insects #macro #mosca #fly #diptera #photography #nature #naturaleza #fotografia

Fotografía de la cópula de Trypetoptera punctulata.

**Bryan Wright** @catselbow@fosstodon.org · Mar 19

Mar 19

Bryan Wright @catselbow@fosstodon.org

A handsome fly (Lucilia?) lapping at sap flowing down the side of a sugar maple. This little rivulet attracted many flies and wasps looking for a treat in an otherwise still wintery landscape. Spring is coming!

We peek around a chunk of bark to spy on a fly who's clinging, head down, to the side of a sugar maple's trunk. The fly is in bright, glaring winter sunlight that makes the bark it stands on look like ashes. The fly's body is shiny metallic green and its eyes are garnet red ovals. Sparse black bristles sweep up and back from its shoulders. Its cellophane wings have amber veins.

#flies #diptera #arthropods

**neville park** @nev@flipping.rocks · Mar 18

Mar 18

neville park @nev@flipping.rocks

#BREAKING: the witch hazel flowers are fully unfurled. These flies are taking advantage—I was surprised to see them out and about!

A stout housefly-type fly (slightly out of focus) on a witch hazel flower, which has long, thin saffron-yellow petals around a glossy dark red central bit, sprouting from a thin bare branch.

A shiny metallic dark blue fly on a cluster of witch hazel flowers.

The fly clinging to one thin petal, ventral side facing the camera, so you can see its weird little fly face is dusted with yellow pollen.

#bloomscrolling #florespondence #SpringWatch

**Nico V** @icetroll@mastodon.xyz · Mar 14 *

Mar 14 *

Nico V @icetroll@mastodon.xyz

Hermetia illucens (Linnaeus, 1758)

Snapped last August, Loire Atlantique, France

Published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2qddFXh

#Diptera #Macro #Pentax #nature
#photography #insect #wildlife #mywork #SoldierFly

**sohkamyung** @sohkamyung · Mar 14

Mar 14

sohkamyung @sohkamyung

A Limoniid Crane Fly (family Limoniidae) spotted at Ulu Sembawang Park Connector, Singapore on 24 Nov 2024. A large fly with even longer legs.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/254289640 ].

Top view of a large fly with long legs resting on a leaf. The body, wings and legs are dark brown.

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography

**aurearamon** @aurearamon@masto.ai · Mar 9

Mar 9

aurearamon @aurearamon@masto.ai

Mascle de Bibio marci, dípter de la família Bibionidae, conegut com a mosca de març. Les larves es desenvolupen al sòl, on s'alimenten de matèria orgànica en descomposició. Una espècie comuna a Europa, on es troba en prats, boscos oberts i zones agrícoles. Tot i el seu aspecte de mosca voluminosa, és inofensiva per als humans.

Imatge d'un mascle de Bibio marci, dípter de la família Bibionidae, conegut com a mosca de març. Les larves es desenvolupen al sòl, on s'alimenten de matèria orgànica en descomposició. Una espècie comuna a Europa, on es troba en prats, boscos oberts i zones agrícoles. Tot i el seu aspecte de mosca voluminosa, és inofensiva per als humans.

#diptera #bibionidae #bibio

**Colin Purrington** @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks · Mar 7

Mar 7

Colin Purrington @colinpurrington@flipping.rocks

If you live in Ontario and like leaf miners, Charley Eiseman would be grateful for pics of ones living on ornamental geraniums. He'd be extra happy if you'd collect the leaves and rear the larvae into adulthood (it's fun). Details in link. Photo of Agromyza nigrescens on dusky crane's-bill by Hannah Mews (CC BY-NC). #LeafMiners #insects #diptera #flies #entomology #inaturalist #geranium #ontario #toronto https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/33779/journal/107467

Fingers holding up a lobed leaf to the sky so that the insects living inside are backlight by the light.

**budak** @budak@kopiti.am · Feb 28 *

Feb 28 *

budak @budak@kopiti.am

oyen

dorsal view of an orangey snipe fly (Chrysopilus ferruginosus) with glittering blue and black eyes. also fuck nazis

#Singapore #orange #fly

**Ashes and Dust** @friesen5000@mstdn.ca · Feb 21

Feb 21

Ashes and Dust @friesen5000@mstdn.ca

Some tiny gall midges with hairy wings for #Flyday.

Manitoba, Canada.

Two tiny reddish flies with long legs and black eyes.

#FlydayFriday #FlyFriday #diptera

**rsp** @rspfau@ecoevo.social · Feb 21

Feb 21

rsp @rspfau@ecoevo.social

#FridayFlyDay
Robber fly (Family Asilidae) of the genus Ospriocerus. Robber flies are powerfully built predators of arthropods. They are the big cats of the insect world.

Pic of fly viewed from the side. It has a long abdomen with wings folded over it. Grasping a stem with all 6 legs.

#Nature #NaturalHistory #Diptera

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