What's In My Garden..

A few plants flowering this morning.

Both my Butterfly Ginger plants are blooming like crazy.



Fruit Salad Frangipani started to lose its brightness.



Another New Gerbera opening with just a tint of lilac.



Crepuscule Rose.



And the dreaded March/Horse Fly look at that stinger.

great pictures mary-anne.

whoa...that fly.
in canada...the horseflies don't have that big stinger. they have TEETH!

Thanks Tessa.. Is that so they certainly can bite maybe they do use their teeth

Boy thise march flies can sting

What a lovely way to start the day with yummy piccies, thanks MA

Thanks Cheryl They do sting/bite whatever..

Great pictures, Mary-Anne :queen:

Thanks Gail..

well at lest the photos come out looking well M A

Thank You Richard..

I wont say what we did to March Flies as a kidlet, but we where pretty feral living up in dem hills

We have so many here now I am going to have to start wearing long pants.

My wack does not kill them these days....

you must be from a good blood line MA

Oh Yes I have Blue Blood...

I wonder why they call them march flies when they are around in other months too ;)

Correct name is MARSH flies ,they do bite.

Ahh, that explains it, thanks Gwen. When we were kids we had always been told they were March flies because they were around in March. Easy mistake to make, both sound similar

They are known by their common name of March Flies Gwen http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_flies/Tabanidae.htm

Somehow I dont think that one is a March fly, over to you Gail..

I see more of the ones with green heads than the one on the pic..

Maybe the pic is a solder fly have a look .http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_flies/STRATIOMYIDAE.htm

I love it Gwen dont have as much trouble opening the posts up..

You are a happy cat are you...

Your climbing the wall the wrong way Gwen that is why

Look more like :bounce: to me ...

I meant to look them up Mary-Anne as I thought it was strange that the wings were lying together on its back. It does look more like a soldier fly (note soldier not solder).

I've just been looking up March and Marsh flies... seems that both names are commonly used. Marsh flies also can be the common name for several different types of small annoying fly like pests

Thanks Gail.. They need to watch those typo's on a Website I though it looked wrong but who am I too argue..
Maybe March Flies are big, and Marsh flies are small...