#flies

[apsciencebydan]

Day 21 of my 2024 favorites: a stunning (and very large) Tunneling Teddy Bear, rabbit botfly (Cuterebra buccata)

Lots of flies have a bit of a macabre life cycle and botflies certainly fall in that category, but this is a truly magnificent creature all the same. 🖤

[heartnosekid]

antlered flutter flies (toxonevra superba) | this_mama_fetz on ig

[dosiadove]

i need more friends who love bugs. I cant take telling people i love bugs and there reaction being "i hate them i kill everyone i see", or "ew" ( and then giving me a weird look. where are the bug lovers? where are my friends? let me show you my collection, lets draw insects together, lets make power points of our favorites.

[humblegrub]

how do flies bite?

[hellsitegenetics]

BEHOLD! Could any truly time-rich person who enjoys gene memes actually genuinely attempt an invite of humble drosophila? To awe the tumblrinas with this task of devotion and enviable skill? All of you, gaze upon my superior posting ability!

String identified: ! C a t t-c g acta g attt a t a? T a t ta t t ta t a a ? A , ga tg at!

Closest match: Drosophila melanogaster strain ANU-1 mitochondrion, complete genome Common name: Common Fruit Fly

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[ms-scarletwings]

Never thought I would see a fly rocking a double mohawk before

Not exactly sure what this beaut is, but Strauzia genus was about as satisfactory as I did narrow it down.

[i-3at-s0ap]

BUG AHEAD!

Meet my little bathroom friend Claudia! She is a bathroom moth fly (aka Clogmia albipunctata) and she is so cute!!!!! She is a member of the Diptera order meaning she is a true fly, even though she is fuzzy like a moth. All these photos were taken by me :D

[platycryptus]

It’s a fly-eat-fly world out there… in the sandy scrubland of central Florida, a hanging thief robberfly (Diogmites esuriens) devours a beefly (Exoprosopa fascipennis).

Interestingly enough, the beefly is a parasitoid that lays eggs in the nests of sand wasps (Bembix), which are themselves specialist hunters of flies including both beeflies and robberflies (though I’m not sure whether this hanging thief is too formidable to be on the wasps’ menu). Insect food webs are amazingly convoluted.

(9/30/23)

[ichneumoniid]

Let me in

LET ME IN

(Diogmites sp, 7/12/2024)

[myxomycota]

Lycogala conicum by allthingsfungi

[apsciencebydan]

You've probably heard of bee flies; but allow me to introduce you to micro bee flies (Mythicomyiidae). Silly little sesame seeds 💛

[honeyrosepetals]

corpse flies

[ex0skeletal-undead]

A Mask of Flies, book cover design by Sam Wolfe Connelly

[unbfacts]

Scientists believe that zebra stripes deter insects. To test this theory, researchers painted black and white stripes on cows. Their experiment showed that this pattern reduced the number of biting flies landing on the cows by more than 50%.

[thatsbelievable]