Black soldiers flies

What’s Black soldiers flies

The adults of black soldier flies measure about 16 millimetres (5⁄8 in) long.These medium-sized flies have a predominantly black body, with metallic reflections ranging from blue to green on the thorax and sometimes with a reddish end of the abdomen.

The head is wide, with very developed eyes. They have no mouth. The antennae are about twice the length of the head. The legs are black with whitish tarsi.

The wings are membranous; in the resting time, they are folded horizontally on the abdomen and overlapped.

Black soldier fly is a mimic fly, very close in size, color, and appearance to the organ pipe mud dauber wasp and its relatives. The mimicry of this particular kind of wasp is especially enhanced in that the fly's antennae are elongated and wasp-like, the fly's hind tarsi are pale, as are the wasp's, and the fly has two small transparent "windows" in the basal abdominal segments that make the fly appear to have a narrow "wasp waist".

source: Wikipedia

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