Close-up of a recently moulted adult empid, or dance, fly (Empis tessellata) resting on a seedhead in a dry limestone grassland habitat in late spring

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Close-up of a recently moulted adult empid, or dance, fly (Empis tessellata) resting on a seedhead in a dry limestone grassland habitat in late spring. Photographed in Somerset, UK, in May.

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