Large Fly: We had a beautiful day with a break in the hot weather so I went for a walkabout in the park and I found this large fly with its patterned wings that was nice enough to come...

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

We had a beautiful day with a break in the hot weather so I went for a walkabout in the park and I found this large fly with its patterned wings that was nice enough to come home with me were I could stage it for a focus stacking session at 5X magnification.

The image of the fly on the rusted steel post was taken with a Nikon Z6 with a 24/70mm S mount lens and extension tubes.

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tinusbum Loc: east texas

nice! he needs his hair combed

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

If a fly can have a confused look he has it, sippy. Two great images.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

tinusbum wrote:

nice! he needs his hair combed

Thanks, Tinusbum. At least it has more hair than me.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

kpmac wrote:

If a fly can have a confused look he has it, sippy. Two great images.

Thanks, Kpmac. One is of it on-the-hoof as I found it and the other is of it staged with a lavender background card placed behind it.

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

sippyjug104 wrote:

We had a beautiful day with a break in the hot weather so I went for a walkabout in the park and I found this large fly with its patterned wings that was nice enough to come home with me were I could stage it for a focus stacking session at 5X magnification.

The image of the fly on the rusted steel post was taken with a Nikon Z6 with a 24/70mm S mount lens and extension tubes.

This is one of the Bee Flies. Bombylìidae.
I love this one's name ANTHRAX.
Anthrax sp. Many species.
Bill

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

newtoyou wrote:

This is one of the Bee Flies. Bombylìidae.
I love this one's name ANTHRAX.
Anthrax sp. Many species.
Bill

Thanks, Bill. I did not know what type of fly it was other than larger than most and one that I seldom find so thanks for identifying it for me.

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

👍 Interesting name on that one. It is one of the larger species of bee fly. It might be the one that parasitizes the large carpenter bees.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Mark Sturtevant wrote:

👍 Interesting name on that one. It is one of the larger species of bee fly. It might be the one that parasitizes the large carpenter bees.

Thanks, Mark. We have a hoard of Carpenter Bees that terrorize our covered dog kennel runs. Perhaps I should put out a beacon pointing the way here for them to do their thing to these 'drill bit' bees.

dsturr

sippyjug104 wrote:

We had a beautiful day with a break in the hot weather so I went for a walkabout in the park and I found this large fly with its patterned wings that was nice enough to come home with me were I could stage it for a focus stacking session at 5X magnification.

The image of the fly on the rusted steel post was taken with a Nikon Z6 with a 24/70mm S mount lens and extension tubes.

Nice.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

dsturr wrote:

Nice.

Thanks for dropping by.