Meat the Family of Diptera (Flies)

The following are my best ever close up (also known as macro shots, if taken with a macro lens, which these are not) ever taken by me before. I hope you enjoy reading about the insects as much as I did. That's one of the really neat things about taking photos--the ID and bio of each tiny insect is sooooo amazing!

The "Flesh Fly" is the fly that lays it's eggs in things like animal feed, dead bodies of animals, and rotting material. Maggots are what hatch from the eggs. It is named "Flesh" fly, because the larvae (maggots) eat the flesh of the dead animal it has hatched into. The flies, after they complete their larval stage, do not eat flesh, but sweet things like nectar from flowers. Like all the other members of the world wide family Sarcophagidae, it has tiny adhesive pads on it's feet which allows it to "stick" to slick surfaces such as windows and ceilings.
This iridescent "Long-Legged Fly" of the family dolichopodidae, is responsible for eating all those pesky mites, thrips, psocids, aphids, and insect larvae that eat away at garden plants. Since they naturaly eat pest insects, they play an important role in keeping the pest population down. The Long-legged fly has many variations, some pretty, others dull. This fly eats by crushing the outer body wall and sucking out the body fluids absorbed by it's pseudotrachea.

(Both above photos are the same type of insect.) The "Dung Fly" is just one of those everyday tiny little flies you see in your garden, or anywhere, on or near plants. Some larvae live in dung, others are leaf miners, stem-borers or feed in seed capsules, while others are aquatic predators or predators on other insect larvae.
The "Robber Fly", an opportunistic hunter, perchases itself in a sunny spot, and waits for lunch to arrive. When it does, it will catch it in mid air, and, in flight, spear it's prey with it's probiscus, injecting two enzymes, one, a neurotoxic enzyme, to parralize it, and the other, a proteolytic enzyme, which breaks down the protiens in the body tissue. Upon landing again, the robber fly will slowly suck the liquified proteins out of the paralized insect, and toss the remains aside. Then, with an endlessly voracious appitite, the it will repearch and await another carefree insect.