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🧵 Another #Throwback to warmer months- this time late #September, when the change of seasons was already well under way but some #plants and #insects were still keeping on keeping on! I saw this amazing fly for the first time, on Aralia racemosa in the garden, Hystricia abrupta, sometimes called Bee-like Tachinid Fly
blog post link, Spectra link +more pics will come in replies ( + blog has all the links) .
YouTube:
https://youtube.com/shorts/dJXx6bvORZE?feature=share
#nature #invert
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Jan 7, 2025 at 3:32amWeb
Show threadcohanJan 7, 2025
🧵 2 #nature #GardenFriends #NaturalGardening #pollinators #biodiversity
The blog link:
https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/01/garden-friends-crazy-cool-fly-bee-like.html
Garden Friends: Crazy Cool Fly (Bee-like Tachinid)

My first sighting of this species of fly, over two days in late September: Hystricia abrupta, sometimes called Bee-like Tachinid Fly. I have...

Show threadcohanJan 7, 2025
🧵 3 #NatureMemes #FlyThoughts #DeepThoughts
"You can feel a great big world
of adventure out there, but
the leaf under your feet feels comfortable" Fly
Show threadcohanJan 7, 2025
🧵 4 #NatureMemes #FlyThoughts #DeepThoughts
"Sometimes
you just want to
sip nectar and
feel the sun on
your bristly bum!" Fly
Show threadcohanJan 7, 2025
edit- just realised I'd accidentally posted the same photo twice on the first post in the thread, and at least one of them had the wrong alt text-- fixed now!
Show threadChuckling DuckJan 7, 2025
@cohanf that's a strange one
Show threadcohanJan 7, 2025
@friesen5000 apparently not rare though not abundant and found over much of North America! I was thrilled to see it :)