It's #FlyDay! Here's Anthrax (no seriously that's the genus name of this fly). #insect #Diptera #pollinator #bombyliidae #FaunaOfManitoba
A Tiger Bee Fly (Xenox tigrinus) peeps in to see what I'm doing. As I was photographing her, I could see her antennae swiveling around, sniffing me.
The bee fly Hemipenthes celeris has something like a buggy version of vanta black on its wings, and I wish I knew what sort of game it was playing.
Entomology themed before-and-after puzzle for Wheel of Fortune: Photo Bombyliidae
#insect #Diptera #fly #WildFlowers #Lithospermum #Bombyliidae #FaunaOfManitoba #FloraOfManitoba #WheelOfFortune #Manitoba #Boraginaceae #entomology
Ashy Bee-fly, Bombylius cinerascens Canon 400D EF 100 2.8 f/2.8 1/80 iso: 200 Srbsko, Czech Republic May 8, 2012 #Diptera #Bombylius #Bombyliidae #beeflies #insect #invertebrate #macro
I always have a hard time photographing Bombyliidae, for some reason. At least I managed to improve slightly upon my first photo of this specimen (I think)... #Insect #Fly #Diptera #Bombyliidae #Entomology #Photography #InsectPhotography
ONE OF THE BEE FLIES (Sparnopolius fulvus, Wied.)
"No butterfly or any other creature of the air could be more beautiful than this dream of early summer. The black velvet body, into which the sunlight sank and disappeared, the fringe of golden hairs along its sides, the steel gray, myriad-facet eyes of which its head was made, and the delicately formed wings, so thin that the light in passing through them was refracted into rainbow tints, made it seem to me more beautiful than almost any of those gorgeous forms of insect life which sometimes fill the clearings in Brazilian forests. It does seem strange that such a thing as this should live its other life a parasite grub within the larva of some caterpillar, or in the egg-case of some grasshoppers but so it seems to do. It spends its childhood as a disease, and its mating days as a dainty fly among the nectar-hearing flowers."
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4428248#page/160/mode/1up
This skinny bombyliid looks as sad as the daisy he's perched on. Poor fellow!
A bee-fly (Bombylius major) on a daisy, enjoying nectar and sunshine. Bee-flies are adorable, with their furry body and long pointy snout. The look like cartoon bees.
Auf besonderen Wunsch habe ich einige Bilder des Großen #Wollschweber (Bombylius major), der mit seinem stattlichen Saugrüssel versteckte Nektarquellen findet, herausgesucht.
Un dípter de la família dels bombilids alimentant-se de nèctar i pol·len.
One bee fly of Bombyliidae family feeding on nectar and pollen.