Insects and Spiders

Green Bottle Fly View 2

This was the only other shot I got before it disappeared. Turned out this was the view needed to identify the gender. Females have a tail in the form of concentric cones. Males have a rounded tail.
Female Bronze Bottle Fly (Lucilia cuprina)

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