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bottle blue!
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Copyright: Ersin UYANIK (eruyanik)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 648 W: 23 N: 1168]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-s-g.gif) (4746) |
| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2006-08-29 |
| Categories: Insects |
| Camera: Canon Powershot A610 |
| Exposure: f/5.0, 1/500 seconds |
| Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop |
| Date Submitted: 2006-10-21 18:18 |
| Viewed: 1106 |
| Points: 16 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
i have green bottle fly photos in my gallery, but this blue bottle is first to the gallery. Blue bottles are shy and ugly than green bottles. You can see the metallic blue on the abdomen, this is why they are called like that. You can see the green bottle fly below...
Green bottle
Another green one
Blue bottle fly - Calliphora vomitoria
Blue Bottle Flies are from the Blow Fly family. They are larger than house flies, growing about half an inch long. Their head and thorax (front and middle sections) are gray, the abdomen (large rear section) is bright metallic blue. They have red eyes and clear wings.
Blue Bottle Flies live just about anywhere, including woods, fields, parks, and farms. They seem to prefer shady places. Blue Bottle Flies often enter homes.
This fly eats from dead animals or meat, living animals with open wounds, animal poop, or some other decaying matter.
After mating, the female Blue Bottle Flies lays her eggs in the same place she feeds, usually in a dead animal. The eggs quickly hatch, and the young larvae, called maggots, eat immediately. The maggots are whitish with small black hooks to tear flesh with. Their saliva helps dissolve (melt) the flesh so they can eat it more easily.
After a week or so of feeding, the larvae crawl away to a dry place and burrow a little ways into soil. They then become pupae (resting stage). Pupae are tough brown coccoons.
After two or three weeks, adult Blue Bottle Flies come out of the pupae.
Blue Bottle Flies breed often during the warm months. Both larvae and pupae can live through the winter, but adults die when it gets too cold.
Blue Bottle Flies sometimes lay eggs in the wound of a living animal. The larvae, when they hatch, eat from the host animal. This is called "myiasis" and can cause infections in the animal.
Because these flies are attracted to foul-smelling things, like dead animals and poop, they sometimes fly to plants with bad-smelling flowers (like Greenbrier) or fungi (like Elegant Stinkhorn). Blue Bottle Flies end up helping these organisms because they transport pollen or spores so that they can grow new plants or mushrooms.
Predators of Blue Bottle Flies include spiders, birds, and bats. Larvae and pupae may be eaten by beetles or centipedes.
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| To Hil: ha ha! | eruyanik |
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Merhaba Ersin.
Mükemmel bir makro. Eline sağlık. Herşeyi yerli yerinde ve 4/4 lük. Her gün gördüğümüz, biryerimize konsa kovaladığımız bir sineği burada görmek bana ilginç geldi. Bildik konu ama mükemmel fotoğraf. Tebrik ederim.
Selamlar
Fevzi
- Hil
(5027)
- [2006-10-21 19:02]
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Hi Ersin,
Excellent macro of the Blue Bottle, the detail is excellent and its amazing to see stuff that you miss with the naked eye, great composition and POV too. The note is excellent but its pretty horrible reading what they get up to, then they land on your lunch and walk all over it, YUK!!.
TFS Hilary :o)
Hallo Ersin,
superb macro of this fly with nice visible details. Point of view and composition are pretty good. Some parts appear a little overexposed, others show slight noise. I tried a workshop and hope that you like the result.
Best wishes, Peter
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- pvs
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1168 W: 261 N: 3035]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif)
(13835) - [2006-10-22 5:14]
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Hi Ersin,
Good macro and its always quite difficult to ID as there are so many flies which could be lokalikes,well captured with good colors,sharpness and details,
Paul
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- red45
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- [2006-10-23 3:34]
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Hi Ersin!
Very good supermacro. Fly is detailed and sharp, with great colours. Maybe not very cute subject, but interesting for sure :-) Excellent note.
Hello Ersin.
My eye was drawn to the fly :)
As fly shots go, this on is very well done. Crisp sharp detail and well lit with natural colors..Very good job of PP as well.
Have a great day mf!
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- otavio (46)
- [2006-11-05 13:10]
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Congratulations!
Very sharp! Bright details!
Colors are good!
Hi Ersin,
"beautiful" fly, you´ve captured in this image very well. I like the details and composition. Curiously today I teke 300 photos, many of them of a similar fly; you can see soon in TN.
Regards
Hernán
