Monday, June 20, 2005

Male Dolichopodid fly hovering over female

Male Dolichopodid fly hovering over female
Latin name: Dolichopodid (family)

I was so pleased to get some shots of a Long-legged fly in flight. This is a male Long-legged fly. He was hovering over a female hoping to mate. The light was good so I was able to have the shutter speed at 1/800 second. Faster would have been even nicer.

Surprisingly, this shot has gotten little attention on Flickr, much less than an earlier shot of mating worms. I am apparantly a poor judge of what will be popular.