Rob Cannings
@robcannings.bsky.social
Curator Emeritus of Entomology, Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, BC, Canada. Biologist, naturalist, writer. Broad insect interests but focuses on Odonata, Asilidae. Biodiversity. Conservation.
#WorldRobberFlyDay
#FlyWeek ... More robber fly portraits: Dioctria pusio, Laphria index, Stenopogon inquinatus. All from The Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Photos: Werner Eigelsreiter.
#FlyWeek ... More robber fly portraits: Dioctria pusio, Laphria index, Stenopogon inquinatus. All from The Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Photos: Werner Eigelsreiter.
April 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
#WorldRobberFlyDay
#FlyWeek ... More robber fly portraits: Dioctria pusio, Laphria index, Stenopogon inquinatus. All from The Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Photos: Werner Eigelsreiter.
#FlyWeek ... More robber fly portraits: Dioctria pusio, Laphria index, Stenopogon inquinatus. All from The Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Photos: Werner Eigelsreiter.
#FlyWeek #WorldRobberFlyDay Fossil head of a Lasiopogon robber fly discovered in a 16,500-year-old Arctic Ground Squirrel midden in Yukon, Canada. Several species of the genus are common in the region today. See doi.org/10.4039/tce....
April 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
#FlyWeek #WorldRobberFlyDay Fossil head of a Lasiopogon robber fly discovered in a 16,500-year-old Arctic Ground Squirrel midden in Yukon, Canada. Several species of the genus are common in the region today. See doi.org/10.4039/tce....
For #FlyWeek and #WorldRobberFlyDay, here's a male Efferia benedicti in the grasslands of the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada.
April 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
For #FlyWeek and #WorldRobberFlyDay, here's a male Efferia benedicti in the grasslands of the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada.