Gregory's ServerI 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.
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@jumbanho @alexwild very nice- led me to this online key to the family. https://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/articles/w-45/  @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 [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/97879165 ] @sohkamyung @alexwild Indeed it does. The wonders of convergent evolution for looking like a dangerous organism. 🙂 |
@alexwild Those eyes... cute lil bug...er