7 Flies …

Posted in Consciousness, Fly, Insects, Life, Love, Macro Photography, Meditation, Nature, Photography, Relaxation, Spirituality, Sustainability, Truth? by Mark on 25/10/2019

Robber fly, robber of life. For it’s precise aerial performance in catching and dispatching its prey. A quick jab, usually to the back of the head.

*Click on the pictures for a proper look … and click again

Picture wing fly, maybe … not sure. Usually found where soft fruit is rotting from their tender affections.

Bearded blue fly, often found at rest around the garden. Next door has a dog they don’t clean up after, they are beauties anyway.

Only found hanging around the blue banded bee nest site, so far. A young fly of another more commonly seen kind, perhaps.

This kind maybe? When a fly is allowed to grow to maturity, often only in the ‘wild’ – ironically – they develop characteristics, of form and colour and bearing, apparent to the eye that sees.

A hoverfly, I think. Golden to the first sight, and precise colouring of the eye. Sometimes the only function is a little beauty.

A bee fly, maybe. I’m no expert at naming … They do love their nectar, with a long proboscis to extract it more easily.

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kopfundgestalt said, on 14/12/2019 at 8:35 am

Great pics anyway. I had some of these flies before my camera, named them but forgotten the days after :-(

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- Mark said, on 14/12/2019 at 9:26 am
  
  Memory, sometimes useful, often unreliable.
  
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standingoutinmyfield said, on 29/10/2019 at 4:17 am

The last is in the family Empididae and the second to last is a Conopid, I suspect, but not a hoverfly anyway.

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- standingoutinmyfield said, on 29/10/2019 at 4:20 am
  
  Wait, I already changed my mind about the last one. I think you’re right about bombyliid
  
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  - standingoutinmyfield said, on 29/10/2019 at 4:22 am
    
    Maybe in the genus Geron?
    
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    - Mark said, on 30/10/2019 at 11:33 am
      
      Thanks Laura. It’s your business to know names, isn’t it.
      
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      - standingoutinmyfield said, on 30/10/2019 at 11:50 pm
        
        Given how often I get them wrong, I should keep them to myself, haha. I would’ve deleted my first comment but I found out I can’t delete my comments on other peoples’ blogs. Oh well
        
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        Mark said, on 31/10/2019 at 12:16 am
        
        Ha ha, if we could go back in time … we could do it all over again in another form.
        
        standingoutinmyfield said, on 31/10/2019 at 10:25 pm
        
        Truth
kopfundgestalt said, on 25/10/2019 at 5:32 pm

Great pics!
How do you do that`? I usely can only do pics maybe half that brilliance.

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- Mark said, on 25/10/2019 at 7:14 pm
  
  Thanks Gerhard. My take on macro is here – https://beingmark.com/macro-illustrated/ – Light is critical, I use flash most of the time so I can control it. There are also some useful links in recent comments on that page.
  
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  - kopfundgestalt said, on 25/10/2019 at 7:24 pm
    
    Thank you a lot.
    I took about 150.000 pics the last two years. My results satisfy me most of the time but there is seemingly a barrier to even get better results.
    I will certainly work through yor posting :-)
    
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    - Mark said, on 25/10/2019 at 11:21 pm
      
      When you know what the barrier is you’ll probably be able to negate it.
      
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Nil said, on 25/10/2019 at 9:38 am

Litlle works of art… :-)

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- Mark said, on 25/10/2019 at 1:03 pm
  
  They are … It’s all a work of art in this medium of sense. Amazing …
  
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  - Nil said, on 25/10/2019 at 7:45 pm
    
    It is 😊
    
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Reflections of an Untidy Mind said, on 25/10/2019 at 9:12 am

Great little flies, Mark. Your camera loves them.

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- Mark said, on 25/10/2019 at 1:00 pm
  
  The earth loves them too …
  
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Zezee said, on 25/10/2019 at 9:05 am

Only your photos could make me admire flies.
I like the bee fly.

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- Mark said, on 25/10/2019 at 12:59 pm
  
  Thinking about them is one thing, not to be encouraged.
  
  Seeing them as they are is another …
  
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Harry van Gastel said, on 25/10/2019 at 7:16 am

Wow.

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- Mark said, on 25/10/2019 at 12:58 pm
  
  :-)
  
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