Stylidium miniatum with Austrosciapus sp fly

            On top of a laterite rise overlooking much of Badgingarra National Park, the small triggerplants grow. These flowers were a soft cream colour.

Little flies were visiting the flowers and drinking nectar produced. The flies were so small and light they could land and feed without disturbing the trigger set to hit a bigger insect coming for a feed to allow it to pat pollen on its body and thus spread pollen from flower to flower during the insect visiting.

So these flies are not really pollinators as they don’t spread pollen. They are robbers! It seems there is enough nectar to go around as we found relatively healthy populations of these plants in the National Park.

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Taken on: September 28, 2021

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Badgingarra National Park

Badgingarra

Stylidium

Diptera

Western Australia

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Camera: Nikon D610, f/22.0, 1/250 sec, 105mm (=157mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D610
Lens:	AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Aperture:	f/22.0
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	105mm (35mm equivalent: 157mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	+1/3 EV
Flash:	On, Return detected
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Snapseed 2.24.554500229
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