#FlydayFriday: Warm weather has returned and so have what I call "zebra flies", _Anthomyia_! With their dark red eyes and striking black and white stripes they are very appealing.

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Happy #FlyDay! Here's an _Anthomyia_ on a coneflower that I just saw in my garden. I think of them as "zebra flies". You can get surprisingly close to them.

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#SpiderSunday: I saw the fly and was holding the milkweed flowers to get a closer look before I saw the crab spider holding it!

The fly was an anthomyiid; I've included a pic of one of its live comrades.

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Male of the genus Anthomyia, dipteran of the Anthomyiidae Family.

Mascle del gènere Anthomyia, dípter de la Família Anthomyiidae.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/135951234

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