Our garden Chicory is still flowering, and this Yellow-legged Flower Fly (Syrphus rectus) took full advantage of it.
(Learning how to use the flash with the Fuji 😊.)
#flies #insects #wildflowers #macro
#flies
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The Fly from Robert Hooke’s Micrographia
#illustration #flies
茨の道 Шлях крізь терни
生ミートボールゴロゴロ戦術は破綻
На ворона полює сокіл-тризуб
https://www.deviantart.com/poison-raika/art/Ibara-no-Michi-1338800931
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#gray #world #pours #down #black #rain #flies #through #ever #sky #explosive #flame #crows #hunt #Trident #falcon #sweeps #across #night #sea #blast #lies #grassland #raw #meatball #giant #hornet #marches #ruin #ancient #empire
茨の道 Шлях крізь терни
生ミートボールゴロゴロ戦術は破綻
На ворона полює сокіл-тризуб
https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=28208056
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#gray #world #pours #down #black #rain #flies #through #ever #sky #explosive #flame #crows #hunt #Trident #falcon #sweeps #across #night #sea #blast #lies #grassland #raw #meatball #giant #hornet #marches #ruin #ancient #empire
Lots of people have a thing against flies, but no one can tell me that this goth one, an adorned bee fly (Exoprosopa decora), isn't cool. #insects #flies #insectphotography
茨の道 Шлях крізь терни
生ミートボールゴロゴロ戦術は破綻
На ворона полює сокіл-тризуб
https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n105acf5c6147
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#gray #world #pours #down #black #rain #flies #through #ever #sky #explosive #flame #crows #hunt #Trident #falcon #sweeps #across #night #sea #blast #lies #grassland #raw #meatball #giant #hornet #marches #ruin #ancient #empire
Tiny golden fly on my bedroom wall. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/its-buggy-time-of-year.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Flies #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐟 📷 In the #1910s and #1920s, fishermen built #underwater viewing tanks and periscope devices to see #flies, lures, and anglers from a #fish’s point of view. Figures like Francis Ward and Edward Ringwood Hewitt produced surreal images that blended #science, #sports, and #art.
👉 https://www.zmescience.com/other/great-pics/animal-life-under-water-francis-ward/
#photography #vintage #cameras #fishing #history #science #opticalillusions #photos #20thcentury
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🪲✨ #Fireflies are actually bioluminescent #beetles, not #flies.
Entomologist Clyde Sorenson from #NorthCarolina State University explains that #larvae glow to warn #predators of their #toxic taste, while #adults use species-specific flash patterns as a #mating ritual, with some predatory “femme fatale” fireflies mimicking other species’ signals to lure and eat males.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/why-fireflies-glow/
#bioluminescence #insects #lightningbugs #nature #science #entomology #wildlife #animals #biology #luciferin #summer
I noticed around twenty years ago that insects in Europe were in serious decline. It didn’t even need a ‘scientific study’ and I use the same methodology today.
In the 1980s, in summer, when I drove in Europe, the windscreen of my car was covered in dead insects after only 100km of driving.
By the early 2000s this was no longer true. Many fewer bug-splats on the glass.
Now? Hardly any at all.
You cannot blame Climate Change for this. This is down to excessive pesticides and farming techniques.
Now studies show bird populations in serious decline. Ever wonder what they used to eat?
We learnt nothing from the DDT fiasco, apparently.
#insects #flies #driving #Climate #ClimateChange #pesticides #farming #environment #Birds #bioaccumulation #systemcollapse
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