Flies doing a little mating dance on our lily pads. I think they might be a species called Poecilobothrus nobilitatus, but that’s a provisional ID for the moment. Sorry for the camera-shake.
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15 May 2009 – 11:00 pm
A Snail’s Eye View: <em>Musca domestica</em>
Fly-related anecdotage.
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Friday Cephalopod: WE HAVE LIFTOFF! : Pharyngula
Flying squid!
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Some local insects
2 August 2007 – 2:55 pm
Earlier in the season, most of the damselflies were blue ones; now they’re all blue-tailed:
This bit of south London is, slightly unexpectedly, a stronghold for the increasingly rare stag beetle. At this time of year you tend to see them flying overhead in the evening; but the weather has been so miserable that I haven’t [...]
Flies, again.
20 June 2006 – 2:36 pm
A little while back I was talking about the extraordinary number of insect species just within the UK, and I said:
What I find staggering about these numbers is that it implies there are so many different evolutionary niches available for such apparently similar creatures. Even the 51 species of mayfly are slightly mind-boggling, but how [...]