Posts Tagged: maggots

No Fun Having a 'Hole in One'

It's no fun having a "hole in one." No, not golf. A hole in your butterfly habitat. So, here it is September of 2016 and we're at home rearing monarch butterflies as part of our small-scale conservation project to help the declining...

Tachinid fly maggot crawls from a monarch chrysalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tachinid fly maggot crawls from a monarch chrysalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a tachinid fly maggot, freshly emerged from its host, a monarch chrysalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-up of a tachinid fly maggot, freshly emerged from its host, a monarch chrysalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Size comparison: a penny, a newly emerged tachinid fly maggot and pupae. The maggot will soon darken and harden and turn into a pupa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Size comparison: a penny, a newly emerged tachinid fly maggot and pupae. The maggot will soon darken and harden and turn into a pupa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A June Bridal Couple That Monarch Moms and Dads Will Hate

Ready for those June weddings? Coming to an altar near you...a bride and a groom. "When you marry in June, you're a bride all your life."--Anonymous. "Look happy," say the wedding photographers as they focus on the bridal couple, and then single out...

Time for a June wedding--an insect wedding photo. These are tachinid flies on a rose leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Time for a June wedding--an insect wedding photo. These are tachinid flies on a rose leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This is a bridal couple photo that monarch moms and dads out there will hate. Close-up of two tachinid flies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This is a bridal couple photo that monarch moms and dads out there will hate. Close-up of two tachinid flies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tachinid fly maggots emerging from their host, a monarch caterpillar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tachinid fly maggots emerging from their host, a monarch caterpillar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A tachinid fly maggot emerging from its host, a monarch chrysalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A tachinid fly maggot emerging from its host, a monarch chrysalis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

As Green as a...Well...Green Bottle Fly

Strange thing, nobody ever says "as green as a green bottle fly." 'Cept maybe an entomologist. You've heard: As green as an emerald As green as a lizard As green as a gourd As green as grass As green as bottled glass As green as it gets But...

A green bottle fly nectaring on Lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A green bottle fly nectaring on Lantana. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Eye to eye with a green bottle fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Eye to eye with a green bottle fly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

You're No Honey Bee!

Remember the 1998 U.S. vice presidential debate when Sen. Lloyd Bentsen told Sen Dan Quayle: "I knew Jack Kennedy, and you're no Jack Kennedy!" Well, in the insect world, there's a fly that looks a lot like a honey bee, but it's no honey...

Drone fly

This drone fly, a female, is an Eristalis tenax from the Syrphidae family. It's sometimes called the "H Fly" for the pattern on its abdomen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Drone fly eyes

The eyes of the drone fly (above) resemble that of a drone male honey bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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