Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sunday Spinelessness - Dipteran Deathtrap
Hunting around the young shoots you can see spiders and beetles that have met the same fate but it seems it's the true flies of the order Diptera that suffer most and probably the soldier flies that do worst of all:
I realise most people will think taking photographs of dead flies is more than a little macabre but I contend there is something quite beautiful about a crane fly suspended gracefully by its long legs
Or even a predatory robber fly caught, as if in mid-flight.
Ok, I promise I'll find something a bit more uplifting for next week's post!
Labels: Asilidae, diptera, environment and ecology, photos, rhododendron, sci-blogs, Stratiomyidae, sunday spinelessness, Tipulidae
1 Comments:
Great post!
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