Hairs distinguish tachinid flies

Sunday, September 9, 2012

I photographed this fly as it sat on my finger. It is a member of a species of flies called tachinid flies. There are countless numbers of tachinid flies throughout most of the world. In North America alone there are well more than 1,000 different variations of tachinid flies.

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