A Kiss for Every Spider

by honiglimonade

Madeira, Portugal

Dancing Trees of Sumba, Indonesia

standing out among most other local tachinids thanks to their size, bright colors and relatively leisurely disposition, Ectophasia is almost always a fun surprise. i say almost because there must have been some sort of mass emergence from several nearby hosts as a small area of only about a dozen square meters was covered in them and with each individual i found i was less and less surprised

the sheer amount of sleepy flies allowed me to take my time searching for a good model - tachinids like to have silly abdomen shapes sometimes, and this individual that was enjoying some rare sunlight was a perfect opportunity to show how completely two-dimensional they are from the side in spite of their impressive width

Edmund Weiss (Edmund Weiß), Illustration of Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833.

The Weiss Crater is named after him.