A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Linnaemya comta
The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Over 1300 species have been described in North America alone. Insects in this family commonly are called tachinid flies or simply tachinids. As far as is known, they all are protelean parasitoids, or occasionally parasites, of arthropods, usually other insects. The family is known from many habitats in all zoogeographical regions and is especially diverse in South America. (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachinidae...
Urban house vegetable garden.
Spotted on Aug 5, 2012
Submitted on Sep 3, 2012
No Comments