Focus Stacked Image of a Fly Face: This is the face of the Green Bottle Fly that goes with the body that I posted yesterday.

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Feb 23, 2021 11:42:45 #

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

This is the face of the Green Bottle Fly that goes with the body that I posted yesterday.

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Feb 23, 2021 11:47:32 #

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

You are making that fly look pretty good, Gary!

Feb 23, 2021 12:02:06 #

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

UTMike wrote:

You are making that fly look pretty good, Gary!

Thanks, UTMike. It's all in how I swat them..!

Feb 23, 2021 12:45:22 #

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Feb 23, 2021 13:36:35 #

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

sippyjug104 wrote:

This is the face of the Green Bottle Fly that goes with the body that I posted yesterday.

Needs a little mousse😲

Feb 23, 2021 13:48:26 #

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

It would be interesting if you could obtain a greenhead (horse fly) and do this shot of it.
Those things have a drill for a proboscis!

Feb 23, 2021 13:58:31 #

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

Only a mother could...

Feb 23, 2021 15:13:30 #

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Longshadow wrote:

It would be interesting if you could obtain a greenhead (horse fly) and do this shot of it.
Those things have a drill for a proboscis!

Thanks, I've yet to find a Western Greenhead Horsefly although we have more than our share of others here. They have a pair of mandibles with fine serrations on them that come to a point. I posted an image of them last week.

Here's a image taken by Darrel Blackford for the USDA Forest Service that shows those pointed mandibles that hurt like the dickens when they stab you. They are seperated in this view however they form together like a sword ready for stabbing. The blood is then sponged up by the specialized mouth which can also be seen in this image.