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bertonemyia.bsky.social
Fluffy.
Sparkly.
Adorable.

These are not the things you usually say about a fly, but here we are.

Let this little creature warm your heart 🥰

#Psychodidae #Setomima nitida
North Carolina, USA (w/ @dradriansmith.bsky.social)
A small fly sits on a green leaf. It looks like a moth, with a very fluffy head and thorax to the right, and dark, fluffy wings held roof-like behind it. The wings are adorned with scattered, small, icy blue scales. A small fly sits on a green leaf. It looks like a moth, with a very fluffy head and thorax to the right, and dark, fluffy wings held roof-like behind it. The wings are adorned with scattered, small, icy blue scales.
August 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
bertonemyia.bsky.social
For the final night of #FlyWeek, just some cool-ass #flies.

moth fly #Psychodidae: #Setomima
aulacigastrid fly #Aulacigastridae
mating thick-headed flies #Conopidae: #Myopa
horse fly #Tabanidae: #Chlorotabanus
A mall, fluffy moth like fly sitting on a leaf. Its thorax is hairy grey with black wings and a few small patches of iridescent pale blue scales. A small black fly sits on the bark of a tree facing down. Its eyes and face are mesmerizing with a pari of digital looking lines running across each eye. Flies mating on a leaf. They have a large white face and jowls and small maroon eyes. The male is on top and is gently holding her eyes. A thick yellow green fly with large maroon eyes rests on the underside of a thin leaf.
May 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
hydaticus.bsky.social
Setomima nitida, a moth fly. Forsyth County, North Carolina

#photography #macro #invertebrates
A small fly with a very fuzzy gray head and thorax and black wings with blue iridescent scales
February 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
americanbeetles.bsky.social
it's JUST FLUFF bugguide.net/node/view/18...
another, equally fuzzy psychodid fly in the genus Setomima
April 3, 2024 at 4:01 PM
americanbeetles.bsky.social
making a run-up at IDing psychodids, absolutely destroyed by Setomima/entire tribe Setomimini

bugguide.net/node/view/70...
the fuzziest fly that has ever existed. Even the wings are fuzzy.
April 3, 2024 at 4:00 PM
jencross.bsky.social
Yes, it looks like one of those little flies you find in bathrooms, but I don’t think it’s related?
(Setomima nitida) Moth Fly
A small, fuzzy gray moth sitting on a leaf.
May 8, 2023 at 2:41 AM