Keyword: fly
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A black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium.
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A female crane fly (Tipula sp.) on the Little River near Maryville, Tennessee.
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A crane fly (Tipula sp.) collected on the Little River near Maryville Tennessee.
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El Segundo flower-loving fly (Rhaphiomidas terminatus terminatus). This insect was thought to be extinct since the end of the 1960s but a small remnant population of less than 100 individuals was discovered in the early 2000s.
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A black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes).
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A day-biting fly (genus Chrysops) from South Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. This fly is thought to carry the disease loa loa filariasis.
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A mahogany dun (Isonychia bicolor) at the West Liberty University Crayfish Conservation Lab in West Liberty, West Virginia.
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A mahogany dun (Isonychia bicolor) at the West Liberty University Crayfish Conservation Lab in West Liberty, West Virginia.
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A damselfly larvae in the family Conagrionidae at the Pontotoc Ridge Preserve near Connerville, OK.
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A damselfly larvae in the family Conagrionidae at the Pontotoc Ridge Preserve near Connerville, OK.
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Spiny tachina fly or hedgehog fly (Paradejeania sp.) at the Museo d’Orbigny Natural History Museum in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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Spiny tachina fly or hedgehog fly (Paradejeania sp.) at the Museo d’Orbigny Natural History Museum in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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The critically-endangered orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) at the Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary. This is one of the rarest birds in the world with fewer than 50 left in the wild.
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A long-haired rousette (Rousettus lanosus) at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
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Little free-tailed bats (Chaerephon pumilus) from Chitengo Camp in Gorongosa National Park.
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An Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) at the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo.
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A studio portrait of a platte river caddisfly, (Ironoquia plattensis), a candidate for the endangered species list.
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A Platte River caddisfly (Ironoquia plattensis) a candidate for listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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A Platte River caddisfly (Ironoquia plattensis) a candidate for listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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Sandhill cranes in flight near Gibbon, NE on their annual migratory route.
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A juvenile caught by biologists. They hope to track its movements through Alaskan oilfields.
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A wingless bat fly (Nycteribia parilis vicaria) that lives on the southern bent-winged bat (Miniopterus orianae bassanii) at Victoria, Australia.
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Red-eyed fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) at the Urban Entomology Lab at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
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Red-eyed fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) at the Urban Entomology Lab at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
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A housefly (Musca domestica) at the Urban Entomology Lab at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
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A housefly (Musca domestica) at the Urban Entomology Lab at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
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A housefly (Musca domestica) at the Urban Entomology Lab at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
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A housefly (Musca domestica) at the Urban Entomology Lab at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
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A sunda scops-owl (Otus lempiji lempiji) at Penang Bird Park.
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Millions of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) roost on the Chincua Mountain near Angangueo, Mexico. This is one of five wintering roosts for monarchs, where the cool mountain climate slows their metabolism enough for them to overwinter before migrating back northward in the spring. Logging threatens this spectacle–Already one of the five sites is no longer used by the butterflies due to the forest being cleared.
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A female common green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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A female common green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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A hex burrowing mayfly (Hexagenia sp.) near Walton, Nebraska. This species can live in smaller bodies of water, such as ponds or small streams.
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A hex burrowing mayfly (Hexagenia sp.) near Walton, Nebraska. This species can live in smaller bodies of water, such as ponds or small streams.
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A crane fly (Tipula sp.) near Marozevo, Madagascar.
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A hawk soars overhead at Parque Jaime Duque in Colombia.
