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No Fun Having a 'Hole in One'
It's no fun having a "hole in one." No, not golf. A hole in your butterfly habitat. So, here it is September of 2016 and we're at home rearing monarch butterflies as part of our small-scale conservation project to help the declining population. The project involves growing several species...
Tachinid fly maggot crawls from a monarch chrysalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a tachinid fly maggot, freshly emerged from its host, a monarch chrysalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Size comparison: a penny, a newly emerged tachinid fly maggot and pupae. The maggot will soon darken and harden and turn into a pupa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A June Bridal Couple That Monarch Moms and Dads Will Hate
Ready for those June weddings? Coming to an altar near you...a bride and a groom. "When you marry in June, you're a bride all your life."--Anonymous. "Look happy," say the wedding photographers as they focus on the bridal couple, and then single out the bride who will be a bride all of her...
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Time for a June wedding--an insect wedding photo. These are tachinid flies on a rose leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is a bridal couple photo that monarch moms and dads out there will hate. Close-up of two tachinid flies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tachinid fly maggots emerging from their host, a monarch caterpillar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A tachinid fly maggot emerging from its host, a monarch chrysalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
As Green as a...Well...Green Bottle Fly
Strange thing, nobody ever says "as green as a green bottle fly." 'Cept maybe an entomologist. You've heard: As green as an emerald As green as a lizard As green as a gourd As green as grass As green as bottled glass As green as it gets But as "green as a bottle fly" (or blow fly in...
A green bottle fly nectaring on Lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Eye to eye with a green bottle fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
You're No Honey Bee!
Remember the 1998 U.S. vice presidential debate when Sen. Lloyd Bentsen told Sen Dan Quayle: "I knew Jack Kennedy, and you're no Jack Kennedy!" Well, in the insect world, there's a fly that looks a lot like a honey bee, but it's no honey bee. It's a drone fly (Eristallis tenax) from the...
Drone fly
Drone fly eyes
