While out in the backyard, exercising some long atrophied macro photography muscles, I came across this drone fly (at least I think it's a drone fly) who was kind enough to stay still long enough for me to take some fairly average pictures of it.
Taken on its own, this picture is nothing to write home about, but I love it anyway. Not for the drone fly, but for the other arthropod in the photo. It's very hard to see, so I will circle it for you.
Still can't see it? Let me zoom in.
Imagine the world at the scale of this little guy. Where a 15mm long drone fly towers over you like Godzilla. And a speck of pollen is the size of a baseball.
Speaking of pollen, that drone fly has a nice dusting of the stuff. Yep. Flies are pollinators, too.
