Birds, Leps, Observations & Generalities - the images and ramblings of Mark Skevington. Sometimes.

Tuesday 12 June 2012

The Spiders and the Flies

Another selection from the weekend - spiders swept from grass at Ketton Quarry and flies swept from umbelifers along the railway line at Whetstone ......

First up, I found this superb easy-to-ID jumping spider .....

Heliophanus flavipes

I got the microscope out for this one, a female, to check it's bits (spiders have external genitalia: palps on males and epigyne on females). I really need to sort out a way of getting photos from the microscope; I've tried before with varying success ranging from just about useable to complete pants .....

 
Xysticus cristatus

Both of these small picture-winged flies were new for me .....

Terellia tussilaginis Chaetorellia jaceae

Urophora sp. (cuspidata/jaceana)

2 comments:

JRandSue said...

These are amazing Macro images,fantastic details.
Lots to like.
John.

Skev said...

Thanks John - glad you like them.