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Strange Fly on water
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Great shot.
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Great detail. Well done.
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Thank you. He appeared to be floating in very shallow water. Odd.
Black Flies (the scourge of Northern Minnesota) are an aquatic fly and lay their eggs in water. I assume this is another type of aquatic fly?
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Looks like Jeff Goldblum. The years haven't been kind.
Perhaps I should have titled it Jeff Goldblum. LOL
This guy was about the size of a regular house fly, but looked different. Have no idea what he was doing on the water, but he was floating and looked perfectly comfortable and I don't think he was a biting kind of fly (thankfully, given his size).
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iNaturalist indicates its some type of Bristle or Tachinid Fly. Cool find ...
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Went to bugguide.net and looked under Bristle and Tachnid. Didn't look like any of the Bristle flies, but definitely looked like several of the Tachnids. Bugguide is overwhelming!
_ There were a huge # of Tachnics!
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If you're on Facebook there is a group called "All Bugs go to Kevin". I know Kevin and he's amazing at identifying insects and spiders. Several other folks in his group are very knowledgeable when it comes to our 6 and 8 legged friends.
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Thanks for the info on Kevin. I don't do Facebook, too many things about it I don't like, but really do miss out on some good things.
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Lots of detail
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Thank you.