Wildlife of Bradley Stoke - Yellow Dung Fly

Scathophaga stercoraria (Yellow dung fly)

Little black fly

This 6mm black fly was seen in the garden - don't know what kind it is though.

Close up of a tiny fly

This little critter, with a body about 1mm long, dropped dead on a windowsill.

This is a picture of the wing, at about 400x magnification. You can see the tiny hairs on the edge of the wing and all over it.

Here is the head and a leg - you can see the compound nature of the eye, plus hairs on the leg. Again at about 400x magnification.

Ants

Disgruntled noticed a fly moving across the ground seemingly on its back. Closer investigation showed that three ants were moving the body, apparantly not wanting to waste what nature had provided for them: