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Created 4-Dec-21
Modified 5-May-24
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© Michael Ross Nature Photography
Robber fly surveying the horizon for preyRobber fly that has captured and is eating a scorpionflyRobber fly that took a moth out of the air as I watchedRobber flies, mating. Notice the interlocking genitalia, with male on leaf of thistle.Robber fly female, with ovipositor getting ready to lay eggs in branchMoth or drain fly, resting on a bathroom mirror above the sink.Ravenel's mushroom (stinkhorn), which has attracted one large and numerous small fliesAn oblique stripetail hover fly, which strayed into a rose flowerA small fly, impaled and being eaten by an immature assassin bugCluster fly, captured by a white crab spider in a white viburnum flowerGreenbottle fly, being eaten by a crab spider and an ambush bug.Deer fly, chrysops vittatus, trapped in the web of a garden spiderA small syrphid fly (hover fly) hanging from and feeding on a bee balm flowerA close up view of the head and thorax of a hover flyA large hover fly, coated in pollen. Although mimicking a honeybee, note the haltere.A transverse banded flower fly, feeding. The pollen is stuck to legs and face.Calligrapher hover fly, "photo bombing" my flower pictureEastern hornet fly, notice both the intricate eye coloration as well as the three red ocelliPhysocephala fly mimics of thread waisted waspsA narcissus bulb fly, the size, shape, and color of a bumblebee. Note the long thick proboscis
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