Keywords: fossil butte national monument fossilbuttenationalmonument fly insecta diptera wyoming nps bug bugs animal animals animalia arthropod arthropods arthropoda insect insects flies black yellow colorful side side view sideview black and yellow blackandyellow wing wings eye eyes usgs biml wy zerene zerene stacker zerenestacker stacked macro macro photography macrophotography droege stackshot taxonomy:binomial=dalmannia pacifica taxonomy:binomial=dalmanniapacifica dalmannia pacifica dalmanniapacifica usgsbiml Dalmannia pacifica Fly, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming. In hand sanitizer in a cuvette Ben added a piece of black construction paper on the bottom of the cuvette to decrease the reflectance of the cuvette wall, this worked, but the paper bled purple/blue..for an interesting effect. Many thanks to arbonius2 for the identification of this species, see their comments below regarding the interesting parasitic nature of this species of fly. Dalmannia pacifica Fly, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming. In hand sanitizer in a cuvette Ben added a piece of black construction paper on the bottom of the cuvette to decrease the reflectance of the cuvette wall, this worked, but the paper bled purple/blue..for an interesting effect. Many thanks to arbonius2 for the identification of this species, see their comments below regarding the interesting parasitic nature of this species of fly. |