What One Will Do For A Picture…
June 15th, 2007 by Kelley
Female deer fly (Chrysops sp.). I love the crazy pattern on their eyes.
Only female deer flies blood feed. Like horse flies, they use scissor-like mouth parts to lacerate a wound through your skin and create a pool of blood in order to suck it up.
Both males and females also feed on nectars in order to acquire carbs for energy to support locomotor activities like flying.
Not as fun as a blood feeder, but another picture of a dragonfly from the latter part of this week
Wow! That dragonfly is amazing. I’m partial but that may be one of the prettiest I’ve seen. I’m sure you hear this a lot but you take fantastic photos!
Did you seriously let that fly suck on your blood to get a picture?! You are too much Kelley! Hahaha, I love you KElley!