Bluebottle fly labellum and pseudotracheae

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Stacked macrophotograph of a bluebottle fly (Calliphora vomitoria) labellum, a sponge-like structure with many grooves (pseudotracheae) sucking up fluids by capillary action.

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Photo credit: © LAGUNA DESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -, anatomy, animal, antenna, antennae, arthropod, background, biological, biology, black, bluebottle, calliphora, close-, compound, detail, entomological, entomology, eye, fauna, fly, head, insect, invertebrate, labellum, macrophotograph, mouthpart, nature, proboscis, pseudotracheae, vomitoria, zoological, zoology