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Yellow Waxcap, Cuckfield, West Sussex UK, 12 October 2024
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Tuesday, 12 June 2018
Rebuffed advances in a garden pond from a handsome, wing-flashing tiny fly
click the video to see the flashing wings ritual.
Tiny iridescent flies were flashing approval and disapproval in their seduction dances this afternoon on a lily pad in this Sussex garden pond.
If anyone can identify these flies, I should be grateful, having had no success yet to do so.
Click on any picture to enlarge it.
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