Most Australians are very familiar with the insects known as March flies. In temperate Australian zones these flies are commonly encountered over the warmer months of the year, and are unwelcome guests on many camping holidays! Tropical species may occur at any time of the year. In other words March flies don’t appear exclusively during the month of March.
Category Archives: Diptera
This is not a bee
This ‘one minute bugs’ post is a video about one of the flies that mimics the European honey bee. You will also meet some crazy looking fly larvae! I must warn you that the video also contains a couple of illustrations that I created in Photoshop. They are a bit daggy but hopefully they help!
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Hunting the Hunter (Part 2)
Hunting the Hunter (Part 1) was written about a year ago – you can read it here. That post was mostly about spider-hunting wasps of the family Pompilidae, and finished with the image below as a bit of a teaser to this second part.
The image shows several fly larvae (the arrow-headed segmented hairy things) and lots of eggs (the black ovoid things). They are the eggs and larvae of flies from the family Acroceridae. Adult flies of this family may be known as ‘bladder flies’, ‘small-headed flies’, ‘hump-back flies’, or ‘spider flies’. The image below indicates how a couple of those common names may have come about.
