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Bryan Wright

A handsome fly (Lucilia?) lapping at sap flowing down the side of a sugar maple. This little rivulet attracted many flies and wasps looking for a treat in an otherwise still wintery landscape. Spring is coming!

We peek around a chunk of bark to spy on a fly who's clinging, head down, to the side of a sugar maple's trunk. The fly is in bright, glaring winter sunlight that makes the bark it stands on look like ashes. The fly's body is shiny metallic green and its eyes are garnet red ovals. Sparse black bristles sweep up and back from its shoulders. Its cellophane wings have amber veins.
#flies#diptera#arthropods
Mar 19, 2025, 11:10 AM·Public·Tusky
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