Mastodawn

Cute lil fly chilling on some yarrow.

(Maybe a White-winged March fly? iNat guess)

#diptera #flies #marchFly #insects #macroPhotography

One of the phantom craneflies, Ptychoptera contaminata, at Lower Common Allotments, #Bath. Adults of this species are usually found on the vegetation near shallow still or slow-flowing water, in which they lay their eggs and develop as larvae. I have found two other species in the Bath area.
#Nature #Wildlife #Insect #Flies #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

Soh Kam Yung 4d ago

"Flies (Diptera) are particularly suitable transport hosts. They are highly mobile, capable of long-distance flight, and frequently visit the same types of transient habitats that pseudoscorpions depend on. By attaching themselves to a fly, pseudoscorpions can effectively outsource dispersal – reaching new habitats they could never access on their own."

https://blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/13/tiny-hitchhikers-in-a-big-world-how-pseudoscorpions-travel-on-flies/

#Flies #Pseudoscorpions #Nature

Tiny Hitchhikers in a Big World: How pseudoscorpions travel on flies | Blog

A new study published in ZooKeys offers the most comprehensive synthesis of pseudoscorpion–Diptera phoresy, including new European records.

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Public Domain Image Archive 5d ago

Tsuba made from yellow bronze with silver inlaid grid pattern and a large butterfly in high shakudō relief. (1916) by Georg Oeder, from Japanische Stichblätter und Schwertzieraten.

Source: Boston Public Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2d2b07c9-72ef-410f-a6f0-d2ccbf48220f

#insects #japan #samurai #flies #swords #metalwork #design #circular #tsubas #art #publicdomain

etc May 10

Love is in the air

#flies

David Westwood May 10

Two Hoverflies from this morning. Cheilosia variabilis and Epistrophe eligans.

#nature #Insects #Flies #Hoverflies

「ʀᴏʙᴇʀᴛ」May 10

#spring #lente #nature #natuur #bees #bijen #damselflies #juffers #flies #vliegen #beetles #torren #nederlandsenatuur

Mauzegrafie May 8

'Verbindungen' #FotoVorschlag

Heute mal eine Gemeine Wespe (Vespula vulgaris), die sich im Netz der Wespenspinne (Argiope bruennichi) verknotet hat. Kleiner Spoiler: Es war Madame Spinne wohl zu heikel und sie hat die Wespe ziehen lassen. Auch die Nahrungskette ist eine Verbindung und Spinnenweben ja sowieso.

Frage in die Runde: Ich würde Spinnenbilder zukünftig gerne ohne Spoiler posten (außer vielleicht Nahaufnahmen von riesigen Kieferklauen), aber immer mehrere Spinnen-Hashtags zum Ausfiltern per Blockliste verwenden. Meinungen dazu?

#bugreport #insects #insect #nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #natur #naturfotografie #arthropods #flies #spidersofthefediverse #spiders #spinne #spinnen #entomology #arachnology #spinne #wasp #wespen #insectsofthefediverse #vespula #canon