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Alex Wild

I have a new favorite fly. I thought it was a little mirid bug when I first saw it in the field, but no.

This is Stictomyia longicornis, a tiny picture-winged fly whose larvae feed on damaged cactus tissue.

Photographed at Seminole Canyon, Texas.

#Diptera #Ulidiidae #Insects #Photography

In the foreground left sits a stout grey fly speckled with black dots on its body and many white spots on its wings, which curve down over the fly’s back like a beetle. In the background right is an out of focus circle of cactus spines.
25 Mar 2023 at 14:31 | Open on mastodon.online
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run_atalanta

@alexwild Those eyes... cute lil bug...er

25 Mar 2023 at 14:38 | Open on pgh.social
James Umbanhowar

@alexwild Great photo, cool fly, but it needs more hair.

25 Mar 2023 at 14:49 | Open on mas.to
Soh Kam Yung

@alexwild My current favourite local Singapore fly is the Drone Fly, Monoceromyia javana. Fooled me the first time I saw it into thinking it was a wasp. 🙂

On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/9 ]

A wasp-like looking fly with a thin waist. It is black with patches of yellow on its body, making it looks like a yellow coloured wasp.
27 Mar 2023 at 1:39 | Open on mstdn.io
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Soh Kam Yung

@xris

Indeed it does. The wonders of convergent evolution for looking like a dangerous organism. 🙂

@alexwild

27 Mar 2023 at 2:27 | Open on mstdn.io
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