Interesting flies

This the smallest fly in the world. Unearthly charm !

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0,4 mm-I wonder how it flies. It's too small.

And about flies with ants, spiders, etc. on their wings - on Andrey Kuraev's website, they turned out to be very popular as creationist arguments... Funny

0,4 mm-I wonder how it flies. It's too small.

And about flies with ants, spiders, etc. on their wings - on Andrey Kuraev's website, they turned out to be very popular as creationist arguments... Funny

A ... G-d's craft, the Pythagorean and Poincare theorem on the wings of diptera! What the gentlemen of clinical creationism do not drag to their dusty closet...

0,4 mm-I wonder how it flies. It's too small.

And about flies with ants, spiders, etc. on their wings - on Andrey Kuraev's website, they turned out to be very popular as creationist arguments... Funny

To the question of who flies how:
It's a fly, just a fly, since Muscidae. But this is Exsul singularis Hutton, 1901, endemic to New Zealand, aka Bat-winged "cannibal" fly, alpaca... Photo of an ex-ra from the Natural History Museum (London). In New Zealand collections (see attached article from the New Zealand Entomologist), 65 copies were kept in 1996. Photo from diptera.info.

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Zoofanat, thank you so much for posting articles about giant ktyr
From them, we can draw the following conclusions
: Ktyri are very well kept in cages, easily fattened and lay eggs.
Since their larvae are predators and not parasites, it should not be so difficult to provide food for them if they eat larvae of many genera, for example, bronze, all sorts of crunchers, rhinos.
Because the search for the larvae of marble crushers is probably difficult, although the crushers themselves are in principle full.
If the larvae eat a wide variety of crunch larvae, then the cycle will close - new ktyri will hatch and possibly mate right in the cage.

These are the two things we need to figure out, eating different larvae, and mating.

Zoofanat, thank you so much for posting articles about giant ktyr
From them, we can draw the following conclusions
: Ktyri are very well kept in cages, easily fattened and lay eggs.
Since their larvae are predators and not parasites, it should not be so difficult to provide food for them if they eat larvae of many genera, for example, bronze, all sorts of crunchers, rhinos.
Because the search for the larvae of marble crushers is probably difficult, although the crushers themselves are in principle full.
If the larvae eat a wide variety of crunch larvae, then the cycle will close - new ktyri will hatch and possibly mate right in the cage.

These are the two things we need to figure out, eating different larvae, and mating.

Do you have any information about this beast? Have you seen it in nature?

Zoofanat, yes, check out the topic here
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...0&#entry1414980

I myself have long dreamed of looking at such ktyry, well, so far I have only looked at the information that there may be a lot of them in my station.
A couple of course would be spoymat, but while you need to at least make a cage and hold the female there. Maybe it's fetal.

By the way, what is there about the alleged venom of this ktyr, I catch it with my hands at home, until I bite

That's lucky. In fact, ktyri with careless handling can bite very sensitively!

Zoofanat, yes, check out the topic here
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...0&#entry1414980

I myself have long dreamed of looking at such ktyry, well, so far I have only looked at the information that there may be a lot of them in my station.
A couple of course would be spoymat, but while you need to at least make a cage and hold the female there. Maybe it's fetal.

By the way, what is there about the alleged venom of this ktyr, I catch it with my hands at home, until I bite it

The photos were taken somewhere in the area of Aleshkovsky Sands? According to the stories and materials that I saw, gigas is an ordinary beast there.

Ktyrei always collect-bitten countless times... it hurts!!?
I am looking for a giant ktyr in the corresponding biotopes of the region, but alas, so far in vain...
Maybe this species has some features in biology and behavior... You have seen and observed them in nature - what is the object of hunting for adult insects?? Yes, in your area the spring was hot this year? Ktyr gigantic released on time??
Please also post some good photos of these ktyres on this page.

This post was edited by Penzyak - 22.06.2013 11: 33

Zoofanat, yes, this is Aleshkovskiye peski, but this is near the Bare Pier. I would not say that there are a lot of such ktyry everywhere, in principle, they meet periodically along the way, but in some places there are simply hundreds of them.

Penzyak, I did not see them during the hunt, I do not know the release date, I can only say that the spring was above the norm by 5C somewhere, but I do not think that this is particularly critical in terms of timing, I understand that the pupa winters, and they hatch rather after certain temperatures have been set, and not by the sum of effective temperatures.
These ktyri sit on the road, branches of shrubs and blades of grass, when they are shooed out, they slowly take off and sit down next to them for almost an hour, and when they approach cautiously, they let them get quite close, so take a picture of Gigansky (we will also take others for the future)ktyrya in nature is very simple.
Apparently, the temperature at 35C and above is very popular with these ktyry, so you should look for them in theory, not only in cave stations, but also where it's hot

Here are two photos, it should be borne in mind that on both photos the ktyri are different And these are all females.

The photos are good And I would like to see hundreds of gigas. We are waiting for new photos of this giant and interesting observations about it. It seems to be the biggest fly of the Palearctic and Ukraine, but there is very little information about it, at least its current distribution in Ukraine, and that would be good. In some places, this animal is extinct. In some places, it is still common. In general, there are more questions than answers.

Satanas gigas from Kharkiv region
Last photo date:23.VII.2014

Place - where the previous ktyri were: NE Ukraine, Kharkiv reg.2 km S to Bezlyudovka ZDS. Stantion (On sandy soil) 49°52'33.11"N, 36°14'55.67"E

Interesting find! Thank you so much for the information.

Als - Alexander Slutsky:
http://alsphotopage.com/
Recently I wrote in a message: I also caught Satanas gigas in Komsomolsk... waiting for you...

Is this the Zmievsky district?

And if there is a photo of the giant ktyr biotope without a railway, it is probably the edges, clearings and quarries of the southern forest exposure... Does it happen in steppe sand gullies???

That's right, they flew en masse at the edge of any forest,and they grabbed animals, up to the crunching grasshoppers and medium-sized grasshoppers that flew out from under their feet...location-floodplain of the Medveditsa River, Gmikhailovka district..

And I have in stock 2 pcs of ktyry-melanists,I can put up a photo,and there were only 2 pcs of them during the entire trip..

I'd like to see it.

And I have in stock 2 pcs of ktyry-melanists,I can put up a photo,and there were only 2 pcs of them during the entire trip..

That's actually the animals

These are not melanists, but ktyri of the genus Dasypogon.

Dasypogon diadema: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasypogon_diadema

2 black and one gray-ktyri of the same breed.The link is uninformative,but you can see striped bellies, but mine don't.

Males have no stripes. Maybe another species of this genus, but it's definitely not S. gigas.

The fly belonged to the mottledwing family, its specific name is Aciura coryli. In most species of this family, the wings are covered with clearly defined dark spots and appear mottled. Larvae of almost all variegated bats develop in the tissues of various plants and most often in flowers. But entomologists probably don't know about the fly imitating an ant.