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blue bottle fly


blue bottle fly
Información de la foto
Copyright: Siegfried Potrykus (neusser0204) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 481 W: 48 N: 1810] (7024)
Género: Lugares
Medio: Color
Tomada el: 2008-07-23
Categorías: Naturaleza
Exposición: f/5.6, 1/500 segundos
More Photo Info: [view]
Versión de la foto: Versión original
Fecha enviada: 2008-09-19 9:22
Vista: 195
Puntos: 12
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The blue bottle fly or bottlebee (Calliphora vomitoria) is a common blow-fly found in most areas of the world and is the type species for the genus Calliphora.
It is 10-14 mm long, slightly larger than a housefly. The head and thorax are dull gray and the abdomen is bright metallic blue with black markings. Its body and legs are covered with black bristle-like hair. The eyes are red and the wings are clear. The legs and antennae are black.
A female blue bottle fly lays her eggs where she feeds, usually in decaying meat, garbage, or feces. Pale whitish larvae, commonly called maggots, soon hatch from the eggs and immediately begin feeding on the decomposing matter where they were hatched. After a few days of feeding, they are fully grown. At that time they will crawl away to a dry place where they can burrow into soil or similar matter to pupate into tough brown coccoons. After two or three weeks, the adults emerge to mate, beginning the cycle again. During cold weather, pupae and adults can hibernate until warmer temperatures revive them.[citation needed] They have the ability to smell meat from distances of 7 kilometers away.

They are pollinators of some flowers with a strong odor such as skunk cabbage and goldenrod
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  • mieky Gold Star Critiquer [C: 74 W: 0 N: 3] (500)
  • [2008-09-19 9:35]

Hi Siegfried,

Very nice shot!
Great details!
Well done

Good luck

Mieky,

Lovely Macro photo with clarity, DOF and color. A nice note as well.Good post.

Hi Siegfried,
This ia an awesome macro shot of this fly. I love the detail in the insect and the flower. The composition is very good. Excellent work.
Regards,
Kevin

Hi,
I like the composition of this photo. Great macro
regards
Ryszard

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  • tibig Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 657 W: 26 N: 681] (7565)
  • [2008-09-20 10:01]

Fine color contrast, the blue-green fly and the yellow flower. Not the most appetizing of creatures.
Regards,
Tibi

Great sharp macro shot, Siegfried! Fine colors
and light!! Excellent job! Congratulations and
TFS!

Abraços,
Bruno

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