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The other feather-legged fly
August 17, 2020 - Several days ago, I wrote about a favorite insect—and a useful one, at that—known as the Feather-legged Fly. We have a s...
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Feather feet
August 12, 2020 - For a number of years, I've been hooked on flies— real flies, a.k.a., members of the insect order Diptera, not, as would...
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Carpenter's nemesis
August 06, 2020 - Large flies—this one's more than an inch long—give me pause, given that the biggest dipterans around here are typically...
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A touch of gold
August 04, 2020 - When I spotted this striking insect, which I suspected was a flower fly, I got instantly excited. If I'd been birding, I...
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Punk inspiration
July 31, 2020 - By tradition, the Ramones, the Damned, and the Saints generally get credit for recording the first punk rock records—and...
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Hydrangea highway robbery
July 14, 2020 - Among the most anticipated arrivals in the summer fly department would be these bumblebee mimics belonging to the dipter...
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Hopeful sign
July 09, 2020 - With the emergence of the deer flies and other sanguivorous members of the dipteran family Tabanidae, I'm increasingly l...
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Crane fly parade
April 28, 2020 - There's somethng curious going on, and if I hadn't been so obsessive about monitoring the flower flies, I probably would...
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Rhubarb robbery
July 26, 2019 - One of the reasons I am forever behind in keeping this endeavor up to date is because I spend way too much time trying t...
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Prey-predator
July 14, 2019 - I'd been scanning a patch of Swamp Milkweed blossoms in a freshwater marsh near my daughter's house, and while there wer...
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New syrphid
July 05, 2019 - I need to give viewers advanced warning. As I noted about a week or so ago, I've been in contact with Jeff Skevington, a...
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Uncertainty principle
June 22, 2019 - A few years ago, I got intrigued by a group of colorful insects called, depending on your preference, either Hover Flies...
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Flower fly
April 25, 2019 - A very attractive, buttercup-like flower is putting on a show along the edges of the back yard, and while Lesser Celandi...
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Subterfugery
April 23, 2019 - Every year at just about this time, I make a mental note to start examining the flowers for the presence of a "bee" that...
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Faux bee
March 24, 2019 - With the Winter Aconites at peak and the early crocuses beginning to come up in huge drifts—this looks like a fine, fine...
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Dipteran uncertainty
January 28, 2019 - The warm, January Thaw weather we've been enjoyed is about to undergo a reality check, but while the temperatures remain...
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Mimicry magic
September 05, 2018 - It's been a summer of depressing abundance for Yellow Jackets, those nasty tempered wasps that, too often, rise out of t...
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Fly finding
August 16, 2018 - When I was a kid, the notion that the only good fly is a dead fly was firmly hammered into my psyche. But while I'm stil...
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Hovering pro
June 09, 2018 - Every morning when the sun's been shining, I've been greeted by an incredible sight: one or two, but sometimes a small s...
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Prurient interest
April 08, 2018 - Beyond the simple fact that I know these are flies, I'm just not sure of their exact identity. But while species and gen...
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The pollinators arrive
March 12, 2018 - In a recent scientific paper I scanned, the headline touted members of the housefly congregation as the dominant pollina...
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Sun fly
March 06, 2018 - It actually got warm today... well, warmish... and when I'd finally finished up enough inside work to be able to finally...
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Yet more mimicry
October 16, 2017 - This has been, so far... and I'm pretty sure this summation will prove true for the rest of 2017... an off year for odon...
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For the love of... bee flies
July 13, 2017 - I've become, this year in particular, a big fan of a group of Diptera that belong to the fly family Syrphidae, a.k.a., t...
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Different dining
May 04, 2017 - When the Tent Caterpillar nests on the wild cherries became obvious last week, I was sorely tempted to remove them befor...
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Artful mimic
September 07, 2016 - With genuine heat returning and no lake to retreat to, I've been keeping my walks to a minimum, what with my elder statu...
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Great mimic
August 14, 2016 - The second flowering of the Sweet William blossoms is in full swing—how's that for alliteration?—and when I'm walking ar...
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Insect fakery
March 17, 2016 - The first bees have already emerged from their winter hibernacula, and not long behind them, their mimics are out and ab...
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Tigers in the midst
August 08, 2015 - I've seen these insects before, but I've never bothered to identify them. Actually, I bothered to misidentify them, dism...
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Hovering
June 07, 2015 - One of these days I will, I resolve, get good, really good, with the hover flies. But that day hasn't arrived yet, and i...
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