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This fly is about the size of a large housefly. It has a black head with large ...
Orange abdomen, black wings, feathered hind legs.
This small fly keeps the wings open rather than closed, as usual.
Black abdomen; males have an orange abdomen.
These are small, brightly colored flies in the Americas that congregate on ...
Sexes dimorphic (e.g. abdomen orange in males vs dark or dark-tipped in ...
Taken from a few feet away. The only photo I managed before it flew off. ...
Trichopoda is a genus of tachinid flies, ...
Feather-Legged Fly spotted on the golf course of Maxwell AFB, near the Alabama ...
It is recognized by the color pattern on the abdomen (black with pairs of ...
Trichopoda is a genus of tachinid flies, ...
Trichopoda pennipes. They have a special ...
Taken at dusk, not so clear but you can see the feathery structure on the leg
<1cm fly orange abdomen, silver bar abdominal tip, black wings and thorax and ...
Visiting goldenrod and actively feeding on the flowers. Very slow moving, with ...
This is the egg of an insect of American origin that was introduced ...
Trichopoda pennipes known hosts include ...
Family: Tachinidae. Small, dark blue/black fly-like insect. Blue and white ...
Lots of insects on the goldenrod. Unknown moth and fly. Fly possibly a Tachinid ...
Size 7-13 mm - Thorax yellowish to brown with black patterns, abdomen yellowish ...
of its intolerable taste with the exception of the parasitic tachinid fly ...
of its intolerable taste with the exception of the parasitic tachinid fly ...