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A Dagger Fly with a long proboscis, about 1 cm long. These flies are normally predators on other small arthropods, but are also known to feed on nectar. In the first 3 pictures, the fly is clearly puncturing the base of a tubular flower (like Hummingbirds do) to reach the nectar that it otherwise would not be able to get to, even with that long proboscis. Family Empididae.
Forest, about 5 km up Mt. Huitepec, west of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Spotted on Aug 20, 2015
Submitted on Mar 7, 2016
2 Comments
Yes Mark :) It was, wasn't it!!! I doubt this has been reported previously for these flies.
Wonderful timing.