Tiny black and yellow striped fly, like 4mm long, looking huge, especially weird because its head is like 1/6th of its body length and is the fattest part of the body, and is almost all compound eyes. Fly has some sort of mouth part down inside a pale lavender flower.

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1. Steven Bodzin (guacamayan@journa.host)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 03:01:42 UTC Steven Bodzin

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   More living things in #Chile

   Four-speckled hoverfly captured in flight (Dioprosopa clavata)

   Flower fly doing flower fly stuff (Syrphus shorae, first time I've seen this one)

   Gorgeous butterfly (Love me a Leptotes trigemmatus)

   Lizard lizarding (Liolaemus tenuis)

   (Look I even notice vertebrates at times!)

   All on Cerro San Cristobal, Santiago