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Fly - Hybomitra hinei
Copyright © 2006 Tam Stuart

Fly - Hybomitra hinei
Deans/Pigeon Swamp, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
June 19, 2006
Size: medium +
Fly was patroling slowly, back and forth, 12 to 18 inches abpve a sunlit portion of a path near a pond. At each end of the sunlit patch it would manouver end to end and reverse its path. Showed no interest in anything present on the ground, dead or alive.

See other image of perched fly taken nearby, thought, probably, to be the same species.
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Contributed by Tam Stuart on 26 June, 2006 - 1:15pm
Last updated 1 July, 2006 - 11:29am

That is one heck of a photo!
Tam:

Wow! I took a couple of photos of what seems to be this species yesterday and while trying to ID, stumbled on your photo. And that is not the first time I've encountered one of your beautiful shots. Recently, I also saw your shots of last year's sphaghnum sprite and that inspired me to surf over to your website. Beautiful stuff!

I'd be interested to hear what lens did you take this with? I see you have a 100 mm and a 180 mm macro. I suppose you took it with one of those...on a tripod?

Whatever you are doing, keep at it!

Jack
… Jack Connor, 6 June, 2007 - 1:42pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Jack
I used the Canon 180/3.5 macro for this shot. Also used MR14-EX for fill flash. I shot this hand-held using a stool because this setup is pretty steady and better adapted to dynamic behavior. With stationary subjects I go with a monopod - again, sitting on a stool, or if lower, kneeling with arms resting on stool. Fly shot taken at 1/1000 sec and f/4.5, ISO 400.
… Tam Stuart, 6 June, 2007 - 8:36pm login or register to post comments

moved
a male
… Tony-2, 1 July, 2006 - 11:29am login or register to post comments

...
Looks like a male deerfly of some kind. If it were a female it would have showed interest in you!
… Sean McCann, 26 June, 2006 - 2:30pm login or register to post comments

 
The hairy eyes,
which can be seen in both of your images make this fly a horse fly in the genus Hybomitra . - Chen
… Chen Young, 27 June, 2006 - 4:23pm login or register to post comments

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