#march fly

bugs!!

Some buggo for thee :D

Kinda look like a moskito with those long legs and very thin abdomen, but much bigger (15~20mm), there was a lot of them flying around an apple tree in the south of france, seemed to be interested by the nectar.

It's clearly some kind of diptera, maybe an Anthomyiidae? We thought of Empididae but probocsis isn't right, and it wasn't hunting...

Any idea of what it could be?

Silly guy casting his shadow on my skin

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A widely distributed genus of Horse Fly (Tabanidae) most often seen in the wetter parts of Australia, New Zealand, and the west coast of South America, where if they're anything like other Tabanids feed on nectar and mammalian blood.