Fly by Day

UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey loves flies.

So, every chance I get, I shoot an image for him.

Many of the images wind up in his classroom PowerPoint presentations.

"Keep 'em coming," he says.

So, I shoot flies. Yes, indeed. I shoot flies. No, I am not a candidate for a 12-step program. Well, not yet.

Truth is, we think of flies as noxious. We don't think of flies as having parts like a head, abdomen and thorax--or compound eyes, arista, antenna, prescutum, scutum, scutellum, balancer and mesothorax.

They do, though.

Alive or dead.

And some are even pretty--especially when they're touching down on delicate pink blossoms.