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Nature’s greatest method actors: the insects that cosplay bumblebees
#Science #Nature #Bees #Wildlife #Evolution #Mimicry #HoverFlies #Bumblebees #AnimalBehavior #Biology #Ecology #Insects #Research #DeceptionInNature #NaturalWorld #Animals #Wasps #Flies
https://the-14.com/natures-greatest-method-actors-the-insects-that-cosplay-bumblebees/

Nature’s greatest method actors: the insects that cosplay bumblebees | The-14

Hoverflies mimic bumblebees in appearance and behavior, even choosing blue flowers to enhance their disguise, revealing nature’s complex evolutionary deception.

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Andrew Sabai Nature Nov 20

A Striated Deer Fly (Chrysops striatus) has a lunch date with my arm as I go about my late morning wetland walk. Deer flies and horseflies can be my nemesis while doing wetland work. I am not too bothered by mosquitoes compared to many, but these flies bite you and then lap up the blood; it is hard not to be bothered by that. #deerflies #flies #wetlands #parasites

Ryan Hodnett Nov 16

Harmandiola sp. Gall on European Aspen (Populus tremula)

#Gall #Populus #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #Aspen #CCBYSA #Flies #Diptera #Galls #Plant #Plants #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

DimaLink Nov 12

Basic Pascal version 1.20 "Lagushka" – retro and arcade

The time has come for a new version of the set. This means a certain number of games have accumulated, and it's time to release them in a new version. There are four new games here. Three are written in Free Pascal.

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/11/basic-pascal-version-120-lagushka-retro.html

#frog #arcade #swimmer #pond #river #swamp #watergames #car #drive #road #fishingrod #ship #flies #newversion #toad #2dgames #8bit #msdos

Cohan Fulford Jan 7

Crazy Cool Fly! Garden Friend

https://spectra.video/w/vU2VU9XxgdheTNjwmkUsMi

Crazy Cool Fly! Garden Friend

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Jon Sullivan Nov 9

Check out this excellent and *stylish* little fly seen today by Irene Apo near Cambridge in NZ.

Steve Kerr from Otago Museum has identified it as the NZ endemic species *Poecilohetaerella antennata*. Not a lot is known about the biology of these.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/325635644

#flies #Diptera #iNaturalistNZ #nz #iNaturalist

Poecilohetaerella antennata

Poecilohetaerella antennata from Leamington, Cambridge, New Zealand on November 9, 2025 at 07:07 PM by Irene Apostolides

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Global Museum Nov 6

Small heads and strange lives: studying the Acroceridae of New Zealand.

A Te Papa Collections Technician aims to create comprehensive species descriptions and distribution records of the Acroceridae, or “small-headed flies”, of New Zealand. Here he shares what he has learned about these strange flies
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/11/06/small-heads-and-strange-lives-studying-the-acroceridae-of-new-zealand/ #globalmuseum #flies #museums

DimaLink Nov 5

Frog – jump on the water lily! frog is calling you for a swim!

The frog is green and cheerful. A big fan of swimming. He can swim anywhere. In a river, in a lake. Anywhere with a lot of water. The frog is green. With big feet. Eyes on top. It's comfortable to swim. I want to swim.

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/11/frog-jump-on-water-lily-little-frog-is.html

#arcade #relax #frog #toad #pond #swim #waterlily #mosquito #flies #funny #positive #summer #water #msdos #8bit #swimmer #bush

Jun_Taniguchi Nov 2

Hei Jun （黒君）

S.Allcocks Aberdeen、Blind Eye Salmon Hook 1/ 0

My new freestyle. This is based on game character which I like.

#flyfishing #classicsalmonflys #flies #flytying #salmonfly #freestyle

Stefan F. Wirth Oct 29

In my new YouTube #video, I tell the #hypothetical story of a #Histiostomatidae #mite that lived its #lifehistory in the #dung heap of the #dinosaur #Edmontosaurus #annectens during the Late #Cretaceous. It developed #fungivorously within the dung and, when conditions deteriorated, was #transported by #flies to a new habitat (phoresis). All images and footage created with #AI assistance, except photos of free-living mites.
© #StefanFWirth 2025

Video
https://youtu.be/gzv-TZmU5G4?si=zrTLfrC96k3KEGqr