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Naturalist, photographer, and Wikimedia contributor. I think flies are neat 🪰
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wren-falcon.bsky.social @wren-falcon.bsky.social · Nov 20
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wren-falcon.bsky.social
(please ignore)
#testpost #foo#bar # ## #a
December 31, 2025 at 3:38 AM
wren-falcon.bsky.social
Happy ##FlyDay!! I haven't found many flies recently, so here's a great blue heron flyby for a change.
##photography ##birds ##heron
A great blue heron, a large gray-blue bird with a long neck and a huge wingspan (about 6 feet or 180 centimeters), flies over a frozen creek. Its wings point downwards, having just finished a stroke/flap. Its long legs dangle behind the bird's body.
December 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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klcoombs.bsky.social
Into the pink.

#macromonday #coloraday #pinkmon #melbourneaustralia #hoverfly #melbourne #insects #flyday #melaleuca #australiannative #melaleucanesophila #pinkflowers #bloomscrolling #photographersofbluesky #photography #photooftheday #nature #melangynaviridiceps #blueskymonday #minimalmonday
December 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
wren-falcon.bsky.social
Happy #flyday!! I'm really happy with this image of Hypocritanus fascipennis, the eastern band-winged hover fly.
#insect #fly #Diptera #Syrphidae #hoverfly #macro #photography
(P.S. I did also upload this to Wikipedia - it was in need of a better image :p)
A top-down photo of a mostly dark hover fly with a long, skinny abdomen and a large, dark spot on each wing. It is perched on a flower, and pollen is visible on its eyes, wings, and abdomen.
December 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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forloveofinsects.bsky.social
Bosbijvlieg | Stripe-winged drone fly
(Eristalis horticola), man | male

#amsterdamsebos #vlieg #fly #diptera #insectphotography #ElkeDagEenInsect
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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daintyspeedwalk.bsky.social
bird
#art #birds
Three ink drawings of birds: a swallow mid-flight, an owl perched on a post, and a wading heron.
August 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
wren-falcon.bsky.social
Happy #FlyDay! I'm not entirely confident on what this little guy is, but I'm thinking Parasyrphus.
#Diptera #Syrphidae #photography #macro #hoverfly
A close-up of the head of a hover fly. It has pollen on its face. A side view of the same hover fly. A top-down view of the same hover fly. It has a yellow-and-black striped abdomen, red eyes, and a brown, shiny scutum (between the head and the abdomen).
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
wren-falcon.bsky.social
paws, too!
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
wren-falcon.bsky.social
Happy (belated) #flyday! Here's a Syritta pipiens (common compost fly) I saw earlier.
#diptera #fly #syrphidae #hoverfly #photography
Side-on view of a hover fly perched on a stem. It is black and white, with some red. In the background is an orange flower. The same hover fly, shown from a slightly different angle and perched on the orange flower.
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Baby Phid, peering 🖤
#EmotionalSupportSpood
Tiny black salticid with red legs and the biggest eyes, on a blade of dry wiregrass, peering at you
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
Ferdinand Rudow (2 April 1840 – 3 September 1920)[1] was a German entomologist best known for the poor quality of his taxonomic work.[2] He described over 200 species of wasps during his lifetime, almost all of which have been revised as synonyms of other species. After an initial interest in studying lice and mites, Rudow began to focus on wasps in 1871.[3] Over the course of his research, he described 234 species and varieties within the Ichneumonidae family of parasitoid wasps, eventually amassing a collection of close to 14,000 insect specimens His work was heavily criticised as unscientific by his contemporaries. He refused to accept modern systems of nomenclature, and often wrote critically of them. In 1908, for example, he wrote that he was "disgusted by the activities of the so-called 'systematics'," whose changes he felt were confusing and unhelpful. in 1993 the german entomologist klaus horst mann described him as "undoubtedly the most incompetent taxonomist of Ichneumonidae.
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
wren-falcon.bsky.social
It's ##FlyDay again! Here's a Meromacrus acutus (Carolinian elegant). Despite its vaguely wasp-like appearance, it's a harmless hover fly.
##Diptera ##Syrphidae ##hoverfly ##flyfriday ##photography ##bugsky
A black fly with symmetric pattern of yellow stripes and spots, vaguely resembling a wasp. It is on a flower.
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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theguardian.com
‘They digest externally’: the artist who creates paintings with live flies
‘They digest externally’: the artist who creates paintings with live flies
For over a decade, John Knuth has created art using the regurgitation of flies and after he lost his home in the California wildfires, his work has a new perspective
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Horrific bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/treat-2
#smbc
September 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
wren-falcon.bsky.social
Saw someone posting for ##flyday and I thought it was an excellent idea! Here's a Palpada vinetorum (northern plushback) on her flower throne
##Diptera ##Syrphidae ##hoverfly ##flyfriday ##photography ##bugsky
A head-on view of a hover fly that is sitting on top of a flower with white petals. It has large, semicircular black eyes—its head/face appears in the shape of a circle.
October 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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flygirlnhm.bsky.social
Been a while but well done @nytimes.com for todays #taxonomicfail (and @bfly52.bsky.social for pointing this out)

Do love a Spelling Syrphid Forum..
September 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
wikimedia commons category "abandoned shopping carts"
October 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
Andrew officiated an impromptu wedding at the 2023 Wikimania conference between a couple whose romance sparked in his Wikidata trainings! After saying “I do” they updated Wikidata to say they were married. I cried commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wi...
man and woman laugh next to computer at impromptu wedding ceremony during wikimania 2023, photo by BugWarp
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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creekdontrise.bsky.social
Idk if I ever posted this here: ode to Grackle
Comic of a grackle stealing a Cheeto from a beach goer
July 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
btw wikipedia's only usable image of toby fox is still the one where he's completely covered in foam
Composers for the game include Junichi Masuda, Toby Fox, and guest composer Ed Sheeran.
June 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steenbok
Steenbok - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
Henry Lizardlover (born March 27, 1954, as Henry Schifberg) is an American herpetoculturist, writer, and photographer who changed his last name to "Lizardlover" in 1986 as a symbol of his appreciation for the reptiles.
February 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
butterfly titled "freak"
April 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM