Stalk-Eyed Flies (Diopsidae) have eyes on long stalks. Self-explanatory name isn’t it? But how long do they actually get? The length of the eye stalks are actually a measure of sexual attractiveness as females may prefer mates with an exaggerated eye-span. Just how long do these stalks get?

I have an earlier post about Stalk-Eyed Flies here, including some videos: The Story Behind Stalk Eyed Flies
#1 Relatively long, but not as long. This Stalk-Eyed Fly was quite easily spooked and kept walking around

#2 做人要看开一点, ok?

#3 A different species, with closer resemblance to a form of hammerhead flies

#4 Father of all Stalk-Eyed Flies, with an eye-span beyond the length of the fly itself! Wonder how many mates he’d get?

Some simple shots from the rest of the day…

#5 A pond-skater with prey

#6 Simple pond-skater shot

#7 There were many of them, but not easy to get low enough to capture them, especially with a long lens

#8 This dragonfly was eating a bee just before I took this shot. Remnants of the leg still remains.

#9 A Whip Spider (Ariamnes flagellum) guarding her egg-sac

#10 Spent the rest of the time shooting this little fly, while waiting for the rain to stop

#11 Here’s what I meant by shooting in the rain. lol. Picture taken by Victor while he was resting on his chair

#12 Some said that this is a hover fly. I’m not too sure yet?

#13 The sun came out (but still raining) and formed a nice green background for me

#14 The shade I provided seemed to attract more of them!

#15 And MORE!

#16 They decided to show me their asses all at once

The complete album can be viewed here.

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