Yard Fly
This gigantic house fly (nearly 1cm long) was terrorizing the yard of Howard and Sandra Tayler a couple months ago. At the time I took it I thought the photo was acceptable but not fantastic, but now that I review it, I really wish I had paid better attention to whatever the tan stuff is that the fly has landed on.
Is that a scrap of leather, or perhaps a freaky lawn mushroom? A dog’s rawhide chew toy?
Thanks, Howard and Sandra, for letting me come over and shoot–we’ll need to do it again this Spring when things warm up!
Slowly getting the site back onto an even keel. It's nice to get back into the old posting rhythm.
tceisele said,
December 10, 2007 @ 11:20 am
In a way, it’s kind of sad that it is easier to tell that this is probably a female (male flies have bigger eyes that are closer together than female flies) than it is to tell what genus it is. It looks a lot like the “cluster flies” that we get around here - big, slow-moving flies that get into the house in the fall looking for a good place to overwinter. Yours looks a fair bit like this one, but without being able to clearly see the wing veins, it’s hard to be sure. Although, it is odd to just see one, normally around here you get swarms of them all trying to get into the same spots in the woodwork.