The good news is that I’ve finished that job that’s had me tied up for days. The bad news is that it is very very dry. A walk through the garden this evening saw me crunching through the dead leaves and twigs that litter the ground after the hot, dry, gale force wind we had yesterday. However I got a picture, one of the tachinid flies, Senostoma longipes, was resting on the trunk of of a brittle gum in the evening light. They’re a beneficial insect, the larvae help to keep caterpillars under control by feeding on them.
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It’s going to be hot and windy again tomorrow, but I’m going to break the birding drought, Peter and I are going back to The Green Gully.
Tachinid fly.
Feb 7th, 2006 by Duncan
Those are the longest legs I’ve ever seen on an otherwise normal-looking fly!