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Nectar consuming fly with rock stable hover ability
Copyright © 2018 Bruce Korb

Nectar consuming fly with rock stable hover ability
Santa Cruz, santa cruz County, California, USA
June 28, 2018
Size: 2cm
Taken at 1/6400 of a second. Their hovering is way more stable than that of a hover fly.

Here, fly is heading to a flower with its needle-mouth down, forelegs together and rear legs splayed out.

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Contributed by Bruce Korb on 28 June, 2018 - 2:12pm
Last updated 18 July, 2018 - 8:28am

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