Ray’s Flies

Ray is one of the few extant humans who has ever been in love with a particular fly. Of course, some entomologists that specialize in flies may love flies, but not, ordinarily, a specific fly. The same goes for exterminators. Exterminators love those flies because the flies mean work. Those flies put food on the exterminator’s table. Those flies send the exterminator’s kids to college or dancing classes maybe.

No other human besides Ray has loved a fly for a great long while. Plus, before Ray, the last true fly lover, Mider, may not have even been human. That’s right. Mider only appeared in human form and therefore was a humanoid, not entirely human. So when push comes to shove, Ray may be the only actual human that has unreservedly been in love with an actual, individual fly. How about that? It’s nice for Crumby to have a unique individual for a bosom companion.

Today’s episode of Ray’s flies features Zelus renardii piercing one of our unknown specie, feather-legged dance flies with its long, hard proboscis. Mercy!

Yes. Our unknown feather-legged dance flies are fixing to be back in great numbers or hoards. They intend to take advantage of the bumper crop of tall goldenrod. Here they are on a cultivar onion from Mexico.

Also, there's that fly that includes bug exudate in its diet. Well, it looks like the bug exudate eating fly, anyway?