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I think it's family Platystomatidae - signal fly
I think this is one of the Pollenia species but if you know better please let ...
A bright green gall looked like a fruit but contained small hymenopteran or ...
Male. Invasive in North America - endemic to Europe.
Very small unknown fly on the edge of a leaf. Need help identifying. Ohio in ...
I think it's a species of Crane Fly, but not sure which. Ohio in May.
Bi-colored thorax and bright yellow scutellum are diagnostic in identifying ...
Female. My best guess is a female Efferia albibarbis.
around 1 cm length, it is dipteran, but i ...
Younger cluster of 2 different plants, a burn earlier this year took both ...
Small insectivorous bat, echolocates to find prey. Feeds on small
Large abdomen with a long sharp beak in the front, used for collecting nectar. ...
I just learned from Bugguide that this species is the only one found in the ...
Hover fly with faint abdomen markings. Red eyes, dark thorax, and orange ...
“Pine-cone willow gall” is caused by a gall midge, Rhabdophaga strobiloides. ...
wide and on a branch of Kunzea sp.
Prey looks like some
These strange growths on black wattle form at branch tips and look nothing at ...
Convoluted clustered clumps growing on the stems of a common acacia looking ...
flies of the dipteran family ...