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Look at the huge halteres on that one!
Copyright © 2007 Ron Hemberger

Look at the huge halteres on that one!
Santiago Oaks Park, Orange, Orange County, California, USA
June 22, 2007
Say it out loud, I'm a fly and I'm proud.

Nothing subtle about this one.
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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 7 August, 2007 - 10:10pm
Last updated 13 August, 2007 - 12:32am

I can't see them!!
The big whitish blobs are calypters
… Tony-2, 7 August, 2007 - 10:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, once again, for contributing to my education.
That could be a full-time job! Boy, I really needed you the other day, when someone puzzled me with "canadian toonies". (At least, I'd known enough to feel bad about the lower case "c".)

Well, correction noted. However, I'll leave the title alone for now, in the spirit of crude and inaccurate humor.
… Ron Hemberger, 7 August, 2007 - 11:29pm login or register to post comments

 
A toonie
is just a coin that has twice the value of a loonie. What could be simpler?

Take a look at the Diptera Taxonomy page. You will see 6 categories of "No Taxon"; should be easy to see where your fly fits.
… Tony-2, 8 August, 2007 - 7:42am login or register to post comments

 
Well, it had me going Looney Tunes, the American version.
Thanks for yet another lesson, one I wish I'd have learned earlier. Off to the Diptera Taxonomy page with clue in hand.

(Actually, I did have "loonie" far back in my memory banks. Must go to Alberta again - soonie!)

[Written later: Whoa, seventy or so pages of Calyptratae images. My work is cut out for me!]
… Ron Hemberger, 8 August, 2007 - 10:52am login or register to post comments

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