wren-falcon.bsky.social
@wren-falcon.bsky.social
Naturalist, photographer, and Wikimedia contributor. I think flies are neat 🪰
January 6, 2026 at 6:22 AM
January 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
January 1, 2026 at 4:24 AM
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
#otter #mustelid #photography #nature #wildlifephotography
Re-tagging since I don't think it worked properly the first time.
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#flyday #photography #birds #heron
(Don't think it tagged properly the first time.)
December 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
December 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Flew past me as I was looking at an otter. I don't think the bird realized I was there at first, as it seemed like it was going to land near there originally...
December 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I'd recognize that face anywhere - that's not a bee, that's a drone fly (genus Eristalis), a kind of hover fly! Most likely Eristalis tenax, the common drone fly. They're honey bee mimics.
December 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Nice shot. Looks like Popillia japonica, Japanese beetle. Introduced to North America (and Europe, more recently) and considered a pest, such as of roses. Keep an eye out for small white eggs laid on its pronotum - that's a tachinid fly parasite introduced to control the beetle!
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
and another few pages above that, Hulst (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...; a minor character mentioned in Smith's controversy) delivers an absolute beatdown on another entomologist's work, using "We fail to see" three times and accusing him of iconoclasm. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10062187
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Interestingly, when I first saw his name, I was reading him detailing another taxonomic controversy, several years prior to his own controversy (source www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10062190)
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I just came across another taxonomist known for controversy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Be...
'Smith even wrote to Dyar "If you object that I am allowing personal consideration to retard scientific knowledge I will plead guilty."'
John Bernhardt Smith - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
congrats, you found a moth fly, aka drain fly! (family Psychodidae)
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM