Latest posts tagged with #flies on Bluesky
A photo showing a mating pair of bee flies. They are fluffy flies with a long pointy mouthpart and two wings. The wings are dark at the top and clear at the bottom.
A pair of bee flies, Bombylius major, making even more bee flies.
Lots of these guys flying about today, the weather is perfect for them.
#flies #diptera #entomology #bugs #insects
Two hoverflies sharing an interest in Goldilocks: Maybe Melanostoma scalare & Syrphus ribesii in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social yesterday. 🤔
#Hoverflies #Flies #Diptera
#WildWebsWednesday
Ferruginous Bee-grabber, Sicus ferrugineus, and a pollen beetle on a Colt's-foot flower in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social yesterday.
#Diptera #Flies #Conopidae #WildWebsWednesday
Gonia picea
Dark-edged Bee-fly
Eristalinus aeneus
Hairy-footed Flower Bee
The decent weather was a good excuse to get my new Fly ID book out yesterday. What I think is Gonia picea? plus DARK-EDGED BEE-FLY, Eristalinus aeneus plus HAIRY-FOOTED FLOWER BEE (Not a fly!) #essexwildlife #nature #flies @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #insects
Male Yellow Swarming Fly, Thaumatomyia notata, with eversible vesicles on the abdomen. These are thought to be pheromone producing glands that may play a role in the aggregation behavior of this species.
Male Yellow Swarming Fly, Thaumatomyia notata, with eversible vesicles on the abdomen. These are thought to be pheromone producing glands that may play a role in the aggregation behavior of this species.
#Diptera #VC55 #flies
When your commitment to the bee impersonation bit is so strong you fly around wearing a full fur coat even though it’s hot and pollen keeps sticking to it. [Narcissus bulb fly, Alameda, CA 4-4-26] #entomology #macro #flies
One more shameless plug for my latest piece on Substack. The name says it all, but I do have some nice pictures of fish.
#flyfishing #AtlanticSamon #salmon #Steelhead #Scotland #SpeyFishing #flies
Big Rods and Silver Fish open.substack.com/pub/cosmicjo...
A swift feather legged fly on goldenrod flowers. Its wings are open, opaque, and smoky brown. It has 2 large dark brown eyes, 2 small black antenna, and a black face with yellow stripes around the eyes. Its thorax is slightly fuzzy and black with 4 yellow, vertical stripes at the top and a yellow horizontal stripes that splits it in half. Its abdomen is slightly fuzzy and pumpkin orange. Its thick halteres are pumpkin orange. 4 black legs are visible, with its hind legs having black 'feathering.' The goldenrod flowers are yellow. The background is various green goldenrod parts.
A swift feather legged fly I saw at Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, PA from Sept 2022.
#dslr #nikon #insectphotography #insect #flies #fly #swiftfeatherleggedfly #trichopodapennipes #pennypackecologicalrestorationtrust #pennsylvania
Female Fannia tuberculata.
Should be Fannia tuberculata if I'm not mistaken.
More (in Swedish) here:
utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2026/03/fann...
#Invertebrate 🐙
#Flies 🪰
#Diptera #Fanniidae
#Biodiversity
📚 Hoverflies in Historical Books P1 🔍
Join me to discover more as I leaf through dusty shelves in search of hidden wonders.👇
#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Syrphidae #Booksky #ArtHistory #NatureIllustration #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #HistSci #Scicomm #Naturewriting
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social
A fly on the border of a plant pot. The fly somewhat resembles a wasp, with yellow bands and dots over a mainly black body. Even its wings are folded back.
We also saw several very beautiful flies! (I never thought I would say that).
This, for example, is a Carolinian elegant, found in the eastern United States, from New Hampshire all the way down to the Andes region in Ecuador.
#flies #insects #invertebrates
I'm supposed to be out here surveying native plants today, but the #arthropod world has been throwing a lot of dramatic scenes my way. youtube.com/shorts/HyFde... #spiders #insects #flies #arachnids #bugs #nature #Oregon 🌿
Small fly with orange thorax and abdomen, and black head and legs, at rest on a fence post
A side view of the same fly, this time sat on my finger
A few more insects were active in sheltered spots this afternoon, including this colourful female Downland Bibio (Bibio anglicus), one of the species in the St Mark's Fly family #flies
Temperatures of around 9C this morning meant that this Dark-edged Bee Fly was sitting motionless on a leaf. Footherly, S.Staffs. #beeflies #flies
Round-bodied fly, covered in fluffy, glossy, chestnut brown hair - sitting in the sunshine on a vividly green leaf with spindly legs, and wings outstretched. Fly's head is small, with globular compound eyes (touching at the middle, indicating a male) - and a long, dark, pointed proboscis points straight outwards from the head.
Another, similar bee-fly - basking above some sunlit soil. Eyes this time are separated by a band of fluff - indicating a female.
Been busy - but with the spring sunshine this week? Bugs galore! And I finally managed to get some photos of bee-flies - Bombylius major.
Cute, round and fluffy? Of *course* they're parasites - lobbing eggs into the nests of solitary bees...
#Derbyshire #insects #macrophotography #flies #beeflies
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
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
https://hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com/2026/03/spring-smoothtail-epistrophe-eligans.html
🦟 Spring Smoothtail 🔍
Yesterday I published an article about spotting the Spring Smoothtail hoverfly in April, and then, on my daily walk, there it was—freshly emerged and soaking up the sunshine a day early.
#Hoverflies #Syrphidae #Flies #Insects #Entomology #Pollinators #Nature #NatureWalk
I really enjoy Narcissus Bulb Flies. They’re large, they wear flashy clothes and they’re bemusingly territorial. They’re unmistakable from 20 feet away. And they love Geranium incanum like all the native bees do. Presented in SloMoVision. [Alameda, CA 3-31-26] #pollinators #flies
The Fly in Your TV
🪰 Fun glitch art piece created for you. 🪰
#photography #glitchart #glitchcore #flies #fly #digitalart #horror #creepy
🦟 Bush full of Flies & Didymodons 🌱
Welcome to the spring everyone🌸 🌼 🌷🌱🦋 🌞
Sightings part 2 - #flies, #hoverflies, #birds, #butterflies, #ladybirds, mosses & more...
Let me know what you have spotted.
#Insects #Moss #Bees #NaturalHistory #Bugs #NatureWriting
#SpringSightings
I am a fly: what are you?
#7SyllableSentence #EastCostKin
#WordGames #Puzzles #Words #Language
#Flies #Insects
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
Two new species of #crane #flies within the #subgenus Pseudolimnophilia have recently been described from northern China, and P. inconcussa is reported for the first time from Shaanxi Province.
This study also provides a key to the #species of the subgenus occurring in China 👇
A common drone fly at rest on a piece of wood. The drone fly is mainly dark brown/black and has some orange markings and hairs to mimic a honey bee.
A Common Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax) warming up.
#FlyDay #Flies
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
This 1977 #FlyTying #book has lots of #diagrams to help you learn this almost lost #art. $25. #Booksky #fishing #angling #lures #flies
天の鉄槌
古代文明帝国に終焉を・・・
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Heaven’s Iron Hammer
The end of the ancient civilization empire...
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Небесний молот
Кінець давній імперії цивілізації…
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