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Entomologist passionate about flies, beetles, spiders, mites... Also macro photography. Director & diagnostician at NC State Plant Disease and Insect Clinic. Opinions are my own. He/him Raleigh, NC, USA https://www.flickr.com/photos/76790273@N07/

Matt Bertone

I've got a bunch of new followers suddenly, so I thought I'd roll this out again as a bit of an introduction... Hi, I'm the artist that painted this, "The Favorite". Perhaps you've seen it around? 😊

wizard

One year ago.

1mo

ascalaphid

Ron Filipkowski

@flygirlnhm.bsky.social

You think your life is 💩? Sure, amateur. This baby lives in a little wizard hat made of its own poo, then blossoms into a lovely little fecal pellet beetle. And they wouldn't have it any other way 🥰 warty leaf #beetle; #Chrysomelidae: #Exema North Carolina, USA @dradriansmith.bsky.social

🚨 Lifer alert! 🚨 Check out this deer bot #fly that @dradriansmith.bsky.social found while we were hunting bugs - my first time getting pics of a wild adult of this family! It's a convincing bee mimic, whose babies live in the sinuses & throats of deer 😋 👀 #Oestridae: #Cephenemyia phobifer NC, USA

Omar Rayyan

22h

I love this poem

For #fossilfriday I present you with an ibis fly (Athericidae) larva and its syninclusions from Baltic amber - a worker and and a checkered beetle larva (Cleridae). Fly larva we have published (see alt text for the link). Preparation of the amber by inimitable Jonas Damzen of Vilnus 🦖⚒️🐝

Managed to get up close an personal with these Currant Clearwings just now! An annual breeder in my little garden, very happy to see them again #teammoth #VC57