Lovely eyes

[Lord Vetinari]

Always like the colours of the eyes of these Tephritid picture wing flies.

Brian V.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/2652387894_ea219f2125_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2652387898_6a061c0e20_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/2652387906_3eafa10d76_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3013/2652387912_8305c5d8e0_o.jpg

[dohara]

Beautiful Brian!

[tlee]

I agree, the eyes are beautifully colored !

[schmoo]

What a beautiful rainbow! Is this characterstic of this type of fly?

:thumb

[Lord Vetinari]

Thanks for looking and commenting everybody :)

Schmoo - most of the picture wing flies I've come across have nice coloured eyes but not always with the stripes as well.

Brian V.

[GOLDENORFE]

Great set Brian, all very good.
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

[Tom]

Fantastic shots. May I ask how you identify the insects in your photos? Must be a couple of pretty good field guides... sorry if this has been asked before.

[Awais Yaqub]

These are superb beautiful

[Mark Edell]

Very cool!

[davidweaver]

Good work and excellent detail on focusing on the eyes.

cheers,
David

[Lord Vetinari]

Thanks for the comments everybody :)- these flies are quite interesting especially when they are doing wing displays.

Tom - I have a couple of Insect guides for the UK and Western Europe which will normally allow you to ID the family. After that I often use web sites like Wild about Britain or Diptera.info if I want to know more. After 3 years macro shooting in my garden I can generally have a good idea of what the bugs are I see :).
IDing many bugs down to species level can be very difficult without microscopic examination which I'm not interested in.

Brian V.

[Tom]

I have a couple of Insect guides for the UK and Western Europe which will normally allow you to ID the family. After that I often use web sites like Wild about Britain or Diptera.info if I want to know more. After 3 years macro shooting in my garden I can generally have a good idea of what the bugs are I see :).
IDing many bugs down to species level can be very difficult without microscopic examination which I'm not interested in.

Brian, thanks for the info. I see that many folks on the forum identify their subjects with proper scientific names instead of common names, which is great. But insect taxonomy can be a killer.

[Jack'll do]

excellent series Brian. Fine detail/colors on the eyes. :thumb:thumb