Jakub Steinhűbel

On Monday will be the last day of September, so the Autumn is really here. Weather is colder despite it is still sunny day. I dont expect to find anything interresting. All that was here is long since gone. In this type of pine-oak forest colourful autumn is not what one could expect. Here colours are fading to gray. On my path I suddenly saw beetle under me feet with nice red-green metallic elytrae. It was Carabid beetle Calosoma sycophanta. Usually very good runner and hunter now lethargic wriggling its way somewhere and I am pretty sure its days are also numbered (GPS: 48.59206, 17.27223) . Shadows are long and colours are fading. It is the end of the season. Carabid beetle with metallic elytrae Calosoma sycophanta .

It looks like ordinary fly but it is not. It is another blood feeder that appeared around our house since neighbour started breeding cow. Few weeks ago one of them stab me and now more of them appeared on my car after cold night. The flies are good fliers and not easy to catch, except this one physogastric female with bigger abdomen. Both males and females are blood feeders with short protruding proboscis. This fly belongs to Muscidae family and I am wonder how many times the blood feeding evolved separately during Evolution in Diptera. Female of Stomoxis calcitrans idling on cars door.