It’s true. Flies on the chopping board? Swat it now. Fruit flies crawling over the fruit bowl? Sluice them under the tap. Horse flies? Aaagh.
And yet we need them, those flies. Their larvae clean up after us – all that poo, all those dead bodies. The adults pollinate for us. They’re part of the cycle of life that we depend on.
I have not a single photo. Not one. So I’ve gone to Unsplash, a free-to-use stock photo site that I use a lot and recommend to you. Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge is meant to be an opportunity for us to showcase our own images. But this time, I’ll showcase the works of others. They really make the case for a fly being a thing of beauty, as well as of use.
The photographers haven’t named their flies, so I’ve had to try. Corrections welcomed. We’ll start with the house fly:
Next, a sarcophaga, a flesh fly. I guess the clue is in the name.
And finally, a green bottle fly.
- Pall Maroof
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
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