this is a fly on the carcass of a red-bellied black snake which is hanging over the barbed wire fence .. the striped black and red is the snake's underbelly .. it is quite black and scaley on top ..
i used the camera flash to take this which is why the lighting looks a bit harsh.. i like that harshness sometimes ..
yes pat patio127.. i used the canon extension tube EF12II on this and still scaled up 140%
Yucky subject, but excellent macro. That's about the sharpest macro of a fly that I can remember ever seeing. This would be a great illustration for a textbook.
Too bad about the snake. Black snakes here are good because they keep the deadly snakes away, and they eat rats and mice.
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