#deer fly

[ranchwamen]

Last of my three pun drawings for a biology magazine! Featuring a Episyrphus balteatus -hoverfly, a housefly, and a Chrysops caecutiens -deer fly.

"Kaksi kärpästä yhdellä iskurepliikillä" means "two flies with one pickup line". It is a variation of "kaksi kärpästä yhdellä iskulla", which literally means "two flies with one strike", but is in fact the Finnish version of the idiom "two birds with one stone".

[love-bugsss]

An interestingly patterned deer fly! 🦌🪰

[usgsbiml]

Ah, here is one of the most annoying of insects (to mammals that is) a tabanid fly, aka deer fly. But almost all of them have some sort of beautiful neon rainbow eye pattern to gift those who look closely. There must be reasons for this, and to make matters more interesting, it appears that there are many patterns to these color TV eyes, to some extent, by inspection of strings of pictures, they appear to be species specific. I also find this group to be more common in the region's wild areas than in the average backyard. Photo by Anders Croft #deerfly #tabanidae #fly #flies

[aquatic-insects-enthousiast]

Pretty, right? The deer fly (from the family Tabanidae) is a common wetland species known for its painful bite, but did you know it’s an aquatic insect too? The babies, at least! They’re sensitive to wetland habitat loss, which stunts their life cycle at the baby stages. Do not recommend holding on for as long as I was, this little guy was just stunned. 5/5/24

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

Happy Fly Day Friday! Please enjoy this colorfully-eyed deer fly (Chrysops geminatus)

[drhoz]

#3084- Dasybasis appendiculata

A widely distributed genus of Horse Fly (Tabanidae) most often seen in the wetter parts of Australia, New Zealand, and the west coast of South America, where if they're anything like other Tabanids feed on nectar and mammalian blood.

Great Southern BioBlitz 2024, Wongan Hills - Lake Ninan

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JULY 15TH, 2024 | Image IDs: Two photos of a brown, yellow, black, and red deer fly on a brown/grey wooden fence post /End IDs.]

[spadearts]

oh bug?