A Face on a Face...
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Can you see the face on the "face" of this thick-headed fly? I don't know about you but it reminds me of Burl Ives (so now you know how old I am). The fly is Physocephala furcillata, a Conopid fly with the colloquial moniker "thick-headed flies" because they frequently have heads that are larger than their body size would suggest. Photo taken July 13 near Debert, NS. |
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This is Physocephala furcillata in lateral or side view. A wonderful, almost uncanny, resemblance to a thread-waisted wasp, isn't it? Note the halteres (white "knob" projecting from the side of the thorax) that are only found on flies. Photo taken July 13 near Debert, NS. |
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