@dhobern
The second frame includes a bee-fly in the genus Australiphthiria.
#Diptera #Bombyliidae #entomology
Grand Bombyle (Bombylius major)
J'aime beaucoup leur forme, des fléchettes velues !
Citadelle de Lille, avril 2023
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Large Bee-fly / Dark-edged Bee-fly / Greater Bee Fly (Bombylius major)
I really like their shape, hairy darts!
Citadelle de Lille, april 2023
#bombyliusmajor #grandbombyle #largebeefly #darkedgedbeefly #greaterbeefly #bombylius #bombyles #bombyliidae #citadelledelille #boisdeboulognelille #hautsdefrancenature #hautsdefrance #insectedefrance #insectesdefrance #insecte #insectes #natureGrand Bombyle (Bombylius major)
Dunes du Fort Vert (Marck), avril 2023
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Large Bee-fly / Dark-edged Bee-fly / Greater Bee Fly (Bombylius major)
Dunes du Fort Vert (Marck), april 2023
#bombyliusmajor #grandbombyle #largebeefly #darkedgedbeefly #greaterbeefly #bombylius #bombyles #bombyliidae #dunesdufortvert #eden62 #hautsdefrance #insectedefrance #insectesdefrance #insecte #insectes #nature
AMANDA KONISHI on Instagram: "⚡️ 𝘽𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙮𝙡𝙞𝙪𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙟𝙤𝙧 ⚡️
Frequent mimics and parasites of bees, Bombyliid flies use their look-alike skills to get close to a potential host bee’s nest. A female fly will hover over a nest entrance and launch her eggs from the air. They are extremely agile fliers and their novel flight behavior has been described as “yawing”, where they rotate around a vertical axis (Layer, 2013).
While being very agile, they are successful through a multiplicity of oviposition attempts. As wittily described in ‘The Solitary Bees’ (Danforth, Minckley and Neff, 2019): ”These flies hover above the ground and launch eggs into any hole, crack or crevice that might have the slightest resemblance to a bee nest. They frequently oviposit toward totally inappropriate objects, such as rocks, stones, roots, and the eyelets of shoes.” They lay up to 1,000 eggs a day in the hopes that a few will find their way into an active nest.
A successfully placed egg will hatch and the fly larva will crawl until it reaches an occupied brood cell, and wait for the bee larva to complete development before consuming it. The fly larvae will then pupate and remain underground throughout the winter.
This illustration was produced as part of a larger graphic for @projectgnbee under the direction of Dr. Jordan Kueneman.
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#bombyliusmajor #greaterbeefly #beeflies #broodparasite #solitarybees"
154 likes, 9 comments - fruitnotanacorn on November 22, 2024: "⚡️ 𝘽𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙮𝙡𝙞𝙪𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙟𝙤𝙧 ⚡️
Frequent mimics and parasites of bees, Bombyliid flies use their look-alike skills to get close to a potential host bee’s nest. A female fly will hover over a nest entrance and launch her eggs from the air. They are extremely agile fliers and their novel flight behavior has been described as “yawing”, where they rotate around a vertical axis (Layer, 2013).
While being very agile, they are successful through a multiplicity of oviposition attempts. As wittily described in ‘The Solitary Bees’ (Danforth, Minckley and Neff, 2019): ”These flies hover above the ground and launch eggs into any hole, crack or crevice that might have the slightest resemblance to a bee nest. They frequently oviposit toward totally inappropriate objects, such as rocks, stones, roots, and the eyelets of shoes.” They lay up to 1,000 eggs a day in the hopes that a few will find their way into an active nest.
A successfully placed egg will hatch and the fly larva will crawl until it reaches an occupied brood cell, and wait for the bee larva to complete development before consuming it. The fly larvae will then pupate and remain underground throughout the winter.
This illustration was produced as part of a larger graphic for @projectgnbee under the direction of Dr. Jordan Kueneman.
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#bombyliusmajor #greaterbeefly #beeflies #broodparasite #solitarybees".
@catselbow
Beautiful photo. This year there are loads of cuddly bee flies (Bombylius major) here in the Cambridgeshire too:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/267537047
#iNaturalist #Diptera #entomology #Bombyliidae
Greater Bee Fly (Bombylius major)
Greater Bee Fly from Hedgerley Close, Cambridge, Anglaterra, GB on March 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM by Albert Cardona
Ich freue mich schon darauf, wenn die kleinen Pummelchen im nächsten Frühjahr wieder unterwegs sind :-)
#artenvielfalt #nature #insekten #insects #natur #Diptera #Schweber #Bombyliidae #Bombylus
A male woolly bee fly hovers at a mistflower, collecting nectar. Dripping Springs, Texas.
#Insects #Flies #Bombyliidae
Wollschweber / Humbleflies / Bombyliidés : Harry Göhde : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Die Wollschweber (Bombyliidae), auch Trauerschweber, Hummelschweber oder seltener Trauerfliege, sind eine Familie der Zweiflügler (Diptera) und werden den...
Das Insektenjahr hat irgendwie erst so richtig angefangen, wenn man wieder die ersten Bilder des Großen #Wollschweber (#Bombylius major) im Kasten hat.
#natur #artenvielfalt #naturfoto #nature #Insekten #diptera #Bombyliidae #insects #fliegen #macro
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