Ant Lab's video: 15 Flies Captured in Flight Slow Motion

Flies are amazingly diverse group of insects! To show off some of that diversity, here are 15 species around where I live in Raleigh, NC flying in slow motion. Special thanks to Matt Bertone for his still photography and help with specimen identification. Follow him here: https://twitter.com/Bertonemyia 00:00 - house fly 00:26 - cheese fly 01:12 - blow fly 01:33 - robber fly 01:54 - thick-headed fly 02:15 - crane fly 02:35 - non-biting midge 02:55 - gall midge 03:37 - hover fly 04:04 - soldier fly 04:22 - fungus gnat 04:44 - dark-winged fungus gnat 05:10 - lauxaniid fly 05:26 - picture-winged fly 05:46 - black onion Fly Scientific names & frames per second captured: House fly – Musca domestica, 8,000fps Stink fly or cheese fly - Coenomyia ferruginea, 6,000fps Blow fly – Lucilia sp., 6,000fps Robber fly – Cerotainia macrocera, 6,000fps Thick-headed fly – Zodion sp., 3,200fps Crane fly - Tipula sp., 6,000fps Non-biting midge - Family – Chironomidae, Chironomus, 6,000fps Gall Midge - Family Cecidomyiidae, 6,000fps Gall midge larva – Camptomyia sp., 6,000fps Hover fly – Family – Syrphidae: Syrphinae, 6,000fps Yellow soldier fly/ compost fly – Ptecticus trivittatus, 6,000fps Fungus gnat, Mycetophilidae, 6,000fps Dark-winged Fungus Gnat - Odontosciara nigra, 4,000fps Lauxaniid fly – Minettia sp., 6,000fps Picture-winged fly – Pseudotephritis vau, 6,000fps Black Onion Fly - Tritoxa flexa, 6,000fps Music by soundofpicture.com