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| saturdaze |
Posted on 05-04-2007 21:22
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 Member Location: California Posts: 6 Joined: 05.04.07 |
They are pretty small droplets. Yes, a sphere has the least surface area for the volume contained, but these droplets are tiny . . . dare I say, teenie tiny. Without the tongues of bees that allow a film of fluid to be produced, a droplet might be the only option for flies and other insects without tongues. Here is another example. The droplet is less that 0.5mm in diameter!
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 10-05-2007 20:36
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9295 Joined: 05.06.06 |
and here goes the mine. Musca cf. autumnalis do bubble blowing.  
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 10-05-2007 20:36 |
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| pierred |
Posted on 02-09-2007 21:50
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 Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1437 Joined: 21.04.05 |
Hello, Nobody is bubbling the same way : http://www.dipter...post_37428 Pierre Duhem |
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| pierred |
Posted on 02-09-2007 21:52
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Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1437 Joined: 21.04.05 |
Hello, Here is the picture : 
Pierre Duhem |
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| Cor Zonneveld |
Posted on 04-09-2007 19:53
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 Member Location: Amstelveen, the Netherlands Posts: 840 Joined: 14.10.06 |
What a lovely picture Pierre!! I saw this beefly in Switzerland at approx 2000 m. Similar tongue, similar bubble blowing. It must be a different behaviour from the other beefly in this thread. Cor Zonneveld attached the following image:  [133.23Kb] Thanks for your attention Cor Zonneveld |
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| pierred |
Posted on 06-09-2007 06:39
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Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1437 Joined: 21.04.05 |
Hello, Yet another one, by Jorapavi, found today on the main forum : 
Pierre Duhem |
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| pierred |
Posted on 06-09-2007 06:43
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Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1437 Joined: 21.04.05 |
A second one, still by Jorapavi, seen on the main forum : Amazing. Pierre Duhem |
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| Iolaire |
Posted on 13-09-2007 18:40
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 Member Location: Langedijk, Netherlands Posts: 192 Joined: 17.08.07 |
I finally saw a fly bubbleblowing today. This fly (I think it's Mesembrina meridiana) was sitting for at least 15 minutes really being busy doing nothing but holding it's bubble "in the wind". Well, it wasn't windy at all, the fly was sitting on the sunny side of a leaf but in the shade of another (leaf). It never moved a muscle! Temp. about 16 C. Almost no wind and a bit of on-and-off sun.
Iolaire attached the following image:  [16.23Kb] Edited by Iolaire on 13-09-2007 18:41 Best regards, Iolaire |
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| Newfoundlander |
Posted on 22-09-2007 23:41
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I photographed this fly on September 19, 2007 at 48.163552N 53.966826W (WGS84). The temperature was about 20 Celsius. The sun was at about the 5 o'clock position if the direction the fly was facing is referenced as 12 o'clock. Don't be fooled by the shadows, I used flash. In fact, the instant the flash fired, the bubble collapsed and the fly immediately withdrew the substance into its mouth.  Here is the entire fly:  |
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| Dima DD |
Posted on 25-09-2007 22:32
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 Member Location: St.Petersburg, Russia Posts: 75 Joined: 28.11.05 |
...and another insect for this collection - look at Hemiptera now! http://macroclub.ru/glr/displayimage.php?pos=-16006 Edited by Dima DD on 01-12-2008 01:59 |
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| pierred |
Posted on 07-10-2007 17:54
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Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1437 Joined: 21.04.05 |
Hello, Yet another one, by guenille : 
Pierre Duhem |
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| pierred |
Posted on 07-10-2007 17:55
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Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1437 Joined: 21.04.05 |
Hello, And another one, by Alvesgaspar : 
Edited by pierred on 07-10-2007 17:55 Pierre Duhem |
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| pierred |
Posted on 12-10-2007 06:48
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Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1437 Joined: 21.04.05 |
Yet another Sepsid :
Pierre Duhem |
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| pierred |
Posted on 03-11-2007 07:58
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Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1437 Joined: 21.04.05 |
Another Calliphora vomitoria found on the main forum (by patder) :
Pierre Duhem |
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| Alvesgaspar |
Posted on 26-11-2007 15:19
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 Member Location: Lisbon, Portugal Posts: 573 Joined: 24.08.07 |
Anthomyia sp. fly making bubbles in the sun. November, 2007, Lisbon. Joaquim Gaspar Lisboa Alvesgaspar attached the following image:  [113.94Kb] |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 07-12-2007 17:27
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 13921 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello! Perhaps the flies like to look at their own image in the mirror like this Thricops diaphanus from October 2006  :  Also 2 mm-Drosophilas do it (Dec-01-2007, 7 ?C): 
Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| Alvesgaspar |
Posted on 13-12-2007 12:31
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Member Location: Lisbon, Portugal Posts: 573 Joined: 24.08.07 |
And a Muscina sp. blowing...
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| Alvesgaspar |
Posted on 31-12-2007 19:18
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Member Location: Lisbon, Portugal Posts: 573 Joined: 24.08.07 |
This time it is a Calliphoridae (a Calliphora vicina?) heating up its regorgitated meal in the sun. Please don't ask what the meal is 
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 31-12-2007 22:41
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9295 Joined: 05.06.06 |
yellow thing... some stomachal fluids..  or a new bubllegum. |
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| anto |
Posted on 01-01-2008 17:35
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Member Location: Barcelona, España Posts: 211 Joined: 14.11.07 |
16-12-2007,Barcelona,Spain
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