Diese Bremse mit den auffälligen Augen ist mir inzwischen als Hybomitra auripila (Weibchen) bestimmt worden. Die Art scheint in NRW eher selten zu sein.

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#fliegen #fly #Tabanidae

Winter ist doof, weil da viele Insekten fehlen 🙄
Aber es sind ja auch nicht alle #Insekten gleich beliebt, auch wenn diese #Regenbremse (#Haematopota pluvialis) fotogen in die Kamera schaute.

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A hypnotic-eyed, soft-focus tabanid fly who has obviously been twirling his upturned moustache in anticipation of eating.... er, MEETING you.

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A deerfly sitting on our clothesline, pondering past meals and thinking about what it should bite next.

A different kind of deerfly kept landing on my hand (and took a small nibble) while I was mowing this weekend. Eventually it landed on the handle of the lawnmower and I told it I would swat it if it didn't go away. Fortunately it flew off, saving me from a moral dilemma.

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For #TaxonomyTuesday I give you Tabanus autumnalis - the large marsh horsefly. As it’s name suggests it likes hanging around marshes! On the left is the female, & with his holoptic eyes the male is on the right. Males are really only interested in finding ladies & so to aid this are all eyes - a male on a mission with superior vision 😏

Nearly finished recurating the British Collection at the #naturalhistorymuseum - all data will be available online via the data portal

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Archiv: Die Larven der Chrysops-Bremsen ernähren sich in Schlamm, sodass man in der Nähe von Gewässern auf der Hut sein sollte. Es sei denn man legt Wert auf so ein Bild.

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It's #TabanidTuesday

Here are 2 examples of the eyes of horseflies. The bands are not pigments of colour but caused by the light refracting on the tiny 'nipples' on each of the ommatidia - the individual eye units.

After death the eyes shrink through dessication and so the unique patterns disappear.

#Tabanidae #eyes #morphology #horsflies #flies