"For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see" Neutral Milk Hotel.

Monday 2 June 2014

Ouch !

An empid fly, Empis sp. Holme Marsh, 2nd June 2014


This empid fly's fearsome weaponry is used to pierce and drink the body fluids of other flies which visit the flowers frequented by this beast. Think yourself lucky that you are not a fly - or that these flies are ten times the size.

A Robber-fly Dysmachus trigonus, Holme NWT, 2nd June 2014


These beasts also have a proboscis, used to pierce and drain the body fluids from their invertebrate prey.

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