Insects of the day

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  August 2018

  Amazing. A monkey-fly
  

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  September 2018

  I know it's the head, but what's what?
  Are the little black beads the eyes? What are the bits that look like speakers?

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  September 2018

  Thanks for your kind comments.

  @Fairygirl, hope that photo did not cause any nightmares with your ex-MIL in them.
  

  @B3 Here's the answer to your morphological questions. Taken from http://www.odonata.dk/info/

  

  Odonates have 2 types of eyes, the Compound Eyes and the Ocelli, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_eye_in_invertebrates#Dorsal_ocelli
  

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  September 2018

  I wonder what they see through those eyes. I know some insects can see ultraviolet.

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  September 2018

  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-camera-looks-at-the-world-through-an-insects-eyes-48582355/
  I found this.

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  September 2018

  Thanks for the link, @B3
  

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  September 2018

    
  

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Alan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190

  September 2018

  Two hoverflies photographed today on Aster frikartii.
  The first is an Eristalis species, dunno what the second is but it is very large.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Alan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190

  September 2018

  In fact the second is not a hoverfly, as indicated by the bristles. it is actually Tachina fera, a parasite of insect larvae.

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  September 2018

  Happy family of Nezara viridula (3rd instar) gathered on hibiscus syriacus. Looking forward to more spectacular 5th instar in a couple of weeks!

  
  

  

  
  

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