Big eyed fly
This fly mostly eye. I don't know my flies well, so am not sure if this is actually one of the big-headed flies or something similar with its head mostly made up of its compound eyes. This critter is small and taken with a 10x microscope objective on a 200mm lens and this is the underside of the head rather than the top...they compound eyes meet at the top...but then severla groups of flies have eyes that meet at the top...or nearly so. Magnificent creatures and one that will be . Photo by Adam Grima.
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde. Original public domain image from Flickr