Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera March 10th 2008. Click image for larger view.
We have had a couple of warm days here in Northern Norway and a few insects have been waking up from their hibernation. In this picture you can see a common housefly (Musca domestica) sitting on some snow. Usually these flies are […]
Entries Tagged as 'Fly'
Close up picture of housefly (Musca domestica) on snow - First insect in Northern Norway
March 12th, 2008 · 10 Comments
Tags: Insect · Fly · Nature · Snow · Winter · Norway Norwegen Norge · Macro
Close up photo of hoverfly feeding on an autumn hawkbit flower
October 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera September 30th 2007. Click image for larger view.
This is probably my last insect photo this year as the snow came to northern Norway today.
In this picture you can see a hoverfly (not sure about the species) feed on an autumn hawkbit (Leontodon autumnalis var. taraxaci) flower. This flower looks […]
Tags: flower fly · Fly · Plant · Flora · Hoverfly · Insect · Norway Norwegen Norge · Nature · Flower · Macro
Macro picture of a blue eyed sawfly (Rhogogaster viridis)
August 15th, 2007 · 14 Comments
Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on June 24th, 2007. Click picture for larger view.
Time for another macro photo of an insect. This time I have captured a sawfly (Rhogogaster viridis) clinging to a straw.
I really like the blue eyes on this sawfly. If you look at my other sawfly photo you can see that […]
Tags: Fly · Sawfly · Insect · Nature · Norway Norwegen Norge · Macro
Macro photo of hoverfly feeding on cow parsley flowers
August 5th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 2nd, 2007. Click picture for larger view.
Time for a close up photo of a hoverfly again. This time the hoverfly is feeding on cow parsley flowers (Anthriscus sylvestris; also known as wild chervil, wild beaked parsley, and keck).
Check out my other macro photos of hoverflies:
Macro photo of […]
Tags: flower fly · Fly · Plant · Flora · Hoverfly · Summer · Norway Norwegen Norge · Nature · Flower · Insect · Macro
Macro photo of sawfly eating an insect
July 15th, 2007 · 15 Comments
Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on June 24th, 2007. Click image for larger view.
This is some kind of sawfly (Symphyta) feeding on a fly. Please let me know if anyone know the species.
I captured this the same day as I took the photos of two dance fly mating and eating. Check out that blog […]
Tags: Fly · Sawfly · Insect · Nature · Norway Norwegen Norge · Macro
Macro photo of a dance fly couple mating and eating a fly
June 28th, 2007 · 14 Comments
This is a horror story from my garden! I was walking around enjoying the nice weather and then I noticed some weird looking large flies. After closer inspection it wasn’t just one fly, it was three! Two dance flies were mating and consuming a fly. So I had to document it with my camera and […]
Tags: Dance fly · Fly · Summer · Insect · Norway Norwegen Norge · Nature · Macro








