#sciapodinae

[rjalker]

anyways unrelated to the last post, Condylostylus mundus my beloved. please hold still for me this year so I can get good pictures of you. you're so pretty.

It's a tiny little fly that's iridescent royal blue.

Here's a picture I got last year:

[ID: A photograph showing a raised garden bed, with the focus on an iridescent dark blue fly sitting on the leaf of a bean plant. Its head and abdomen are dark blue, and the thorax is lighter, almost cyan. End ID.]

[bugsoupforthesoul]

Condylostylus sp.

[hisj]

Dolichopodid fly capturing sweat bee #Sciapodinae #ホソアシナガバエ亜科 #Dolichopodidae #アシナガバエ科 #fly #Halictidae #sweatbee #bee #halictine #コハナバチ _Helianthus annuus_ common #sunflower #tournesol #héliotrope #maurelle #Sonnenblume #girasol #ヒラソル #ヒマワリ (総社二子山古墳) https://www.instagram.com/p/By9ddvEgtE_/?igshid=krwmdmdp4eao

[bugsoupforthesoul]

Condylostylus sp.

Some new, better photos of this gorgeous long legged fly

[drhoz]

#262 - Austrosciapus Green Long-legged Fly

A Dolichopodid fly of the genus Austrosciapus. Predators of smaller insects such as aphids. 

Uranquinty, NSW