Flies

No ID as yet, but a nice looker and stayed still for me :)

Some of the other lovely things that show up at a moth box.

on Agrimony

Not the loveliest of settings, but a record shot for this attractive Hover.

About a month before this we found this lovely Garden Tiger caterpillar on umbifers, in a footpath where it is likely the council in their wisdom will come along and weed wack. So we brought it home as this species is one in serious decline for me to rear. He did really well for nearly a month, and finally right on time decided to pupate. I left him to it for the first 48 hours when it should be safe to check it and move it if needed and it still was in caterpillar. I was gutted wondering what I might have been able to do different to make sure it was ok. A day or so later (just in case) I had a check again and found 8 or 9 of these pupa in near it, now there is no possible way this happened after we brought it home, so out of curiousity I waited until some of them emerged expecting some parasitic wasp or something, and no it was Flesh Flies. I had no idea that flies would paratise a living caterpillar. Sad as it is, its nature and was interesting to see the results.

You know its true...

One of our many Zebra Jumpers with a fly prey.

Ok actually I have no idea what kind of fly it is...lol

She asks me... Does that look like a tiny french mustache to anyone else?

It was chasing other flys and such, but not sure of an ID. Update: Thanks to Antonio I was able to find an ID on this guy, from a brilliant contact at Flickr, if you need to see information about something he is the man, Steven Falk

With missing racing stripe it appears..lol I hate it when they just fall off and you can't find them anywhere because they are yellow and so is every flower you've been to all day!

Get your own! I found this little scene interesting, (not sure what that says about me, but there you go) the two flies seemed to keep nudging each other with their legs, pushing the other away, and then the poo is loaded with ants and a millipede.

Don't have an ID on this one but I did like it.

Stop staring!

This guy has a damaged wing, and was walking up the footpath, when I reached down he gladly came onto my finger and was very happy it would seem to be off the ground, as any self respecting hoverfly would be! We left him on this bramble to sun and hope he can make his way to some nectar. Update: Thanks to Alby for correcting my ID on this Tachnid Fly, not a hover, I still imagine anything with wings perfers not to walk...lol

A few bits from Pons Wood