May 5th - Observe some flies!

Heyo, fly folk!

My goal for you all this week is to go outside and find any one fly to upload to iNat. It can be a muscoid, cecid, even a culicid. For extra points, find five (or more!).

Have fun!

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Posted on May 6, 2024 12:37 AM by zdanko zdanko

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ooh... challenge accepted. I've been seeing lots of flies lately. What do the extra points get us? Virtual brownies, maybe? :-)

Posted by mmmiller about 1 month ago

challenge accepted :)

Posted by taogirl about 1 month ago

Does it count if we uploaded before you posted? This one was so bright and shiny and did some nice dances for me that I processed them as HDR. If you have a monitor that can display HDR images, like an M1 Mac or a relatively new iPhone or iPad, you should be able to see the HDR images. It seems Safari doesn't support HDR yet, but Chrome and Brave do - at least in the format I uploaded here. https://victorengel.com/bugs/lipsanini/ (also uploaded to iNat, but I don't think HDR works there)
If you can't see HDR images, you get to still see the images, but they look relatively bland. HDR is really nice for shiny bugs.

I looked around on the crepe myrtle after I took video and stills of the first fly I noticed and found another one on the same plant. Looks like one is male and one is female. I wonder if they ever found each other.

Posted by victorengel about 1 month ago

I'll be recovering from City Nature Challenge. But I've got lots of syrphids now, and several others. I'll do my best!

Posted by xris about 1 month ago

No rest for the weary! Cool find, Victor :)

Posted by zdanko about 1 month ago

Great time for chironomids!

Posted by erikamitchell about 1 month ago

I found some cool midges during CNC.

Posted by xris about 1 month ago

Got one today.

Posted by xris about 1 month ago
Posted by xris about 1 month ago

Got my five!

Would have had a sixth but kitty got to it first.

Posted by luck about 1 month ago

Here are my 10 obs - I went with the CV suggestion so I don't know if the initial ID is correct. All my observations were along the Mississippi River.

Posted by mmmiller about 1 month ago

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