RARE: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species

A Delhi Sands flower-loving fly (Rhaphiomidas terminatus abdominalis) at an eight-acre hospital preserve. Biologists guess that the insect numbers fewer than 1,000 individuals over the last 500 acres of Delhi Sands dune ecosystem. It is the only fly to be federally listed.

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