Monday, June 9, 2014

Beautiful fly, odd behavior


We had wonderful rains this morning. Perhaps more tonight. Thank you, L0rd! This afternoon, I went outside to the back yard and roamed around a while. When I spotted either a tarantula hawk wasp or Mydas fly, I ran inside to grab my camera (I startled James in the process). Alas, upon my hasty return, the monster insect had already vanished. Instead, I noticed two flies interacting so I shot photos of them. The two flies socialized some but didn't attempt to mate. Then the one fly seemed to "lick" the limestone. I've got an inquiry into Bugguide.net about that. I believe this is a tachinid fly, Microphthalma sp. Very cool.









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