Thursday, August 22, 2013

Tachina Fly

Tachina Fly
This is a large fly, about the size of a horse fly but more plump.  As you can see, it is feeding off the rattlesnake master blooms.  They also visit decaying matter to feed.  Optionally, they don't eat at all as adults.

Tachina Fly
It is a true fly from what I can read about it.  They say at Wikipedia that there are over 1300 species in North America. They are protelean, living inside a host, at the beginning of their life, and emerge to full adulthood by eating their host.

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