I like these they stay still....

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Not what we recognise as beeflies in the UK. Ours have a long proboscis, permanently extended forewards. Ours don't have the huge head and eyes.

Lovely series karen

e6filmuser - check out this gallery http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?album_id=5

Brian V.

Nice shots. Interesting pose for the fly - looks like it will fall off in #3.

LordV wrote:

e6filmuser - check out this gallery http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?album_id=5

Brian V.


Thanks. Different genus in the same family. A useful diversion, in that Anthrax (who was so unkind as to allocate that name?) seems to be the fly I photographed in Corsica this summer. The slow, short flights fit.

e6filmuser wrote:
LordV wrote:

e6filmuser - check out this gallery http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?album_id=5

Brian V.


Thanks. Different genus in the same family. A useful diversion, in that Anthrax (who was so unkind as to allocate that name?) seems to be the fly I photographed in Corsica this summer. The slow, short flights fit.

I tend to recognise this family by the fact they can't fold their wings down - always held in a V formation at rest. But like you I only tend to see Bombylius major here.

Brian V.

superb shots

good shots Karen, getting good eye detail now!
phil