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Yellow-legged Dance Fly

Empis livida

About

A medium-sized dance fly with yellowish legs, a grayish body, and a distinctive long proboscis. It forms conspicuous mating swarms near streams and in sheltered clearings.

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Did You Know?

In some dance fly species, males wrap worthless objects in silk to trick females into mating, a form of sexual deception.