Macro Monday – Have You Ever Seen A Fruit Fly Really?
Before I took a few photos of this fruit fly I had no idea what they looked like. They were just these annoying little dots floating around. And, it wasn’t easy to find one settled for long enough to get a picture. For reference that white surface is the edge of a plastic spoon. The reddish brown color put it into one of two groups but there are so many fruit flies that I could not make a firm identification. I think you would need a microscope. I take macro photographs primarily to aid in identifying creatures; or, just to see them for the first time. So, now I know a little better what a fruit fly looks like and it’s an interesting creature. Thank goodness I won’t have to chase one of these around until it stays still for a second ever again. That was a challenge for sure. I hope you enjoyed this look into the macro world!
Oh, I am insanely curious as to why my tags don’t work. Does anyone have an idea as to what I am doing wrong? The site is a little under documented for many details like this.
I didn’t know there was that kind of fly. For easier capture, place one drop of honey and it will come. Wonderful macro.
That’s true about the honey perhaps. These fruit flies are so small and are rarely still.
Thanks for your kind words.
Never seen a fruit fly before… or maybe I have but didn’t know it was that.
Thanks for this pic. Now I should be able to identify them better.
For the tags, I can add tags with evert post I create. I would contact customer care so they look into it if the issue continues.
I don’t really like them, sorry, the insect called “fly”.:P
Yeah, nobody dislike them much really. Cheers. 🙂
So true, I thought you enjoyed looking at them. :P
They look as soft as they feel when I squeeze them! ?
Well, now I feel sorry for having crushed them.
This is the first comment here that made me laugh out loud.
They are annoying. When I took this I had too many apples for a moment. I keep the ones with bugs and give the good ones away. There were more than fit in the fridge. They disappear quickly when the fruit is gone.
This is a very good macro of the fruit fly…Excellent.
Thanks Pamela.
I’m not so well equipped for macros but I get lucky once in a while. I hope all is well with you.
What a great macro photo!
Thanks so much.
I probably won’t get another of these soon. I mean I won’t try. To be honest I enjoy looking at your desserts so much more. LOL
I have never seen so many details before, so these macros are definitely fun for me. Thank you for your kind words!
lets start with the picture – awesome macro!!!
can you provide me with more data such as –
what browser are you using (to start)
Hi Doc, It doesn’t have anything to do with me or my browser. It’s the same for everyone. Believe me I checked “operator error’. Just have a look around the posts – you can see if there are tags or not. Thanks for trying to help.
i am able to post tags on every post….
I know that. And the bulk of users can’t.
I find that interesting so then the question would be are any of the people having an issue verified users?
I hope that they have nothing to do with me. 🙂
Are you paid by Virily as support of some kind? If not I don’t believe you can help but I do thank you for offering. Cheers.
not paid, just trying to help.
I checked on your last post and tags are not there. https://virily.com/virily_poll/look-up-in-the-sky-bird-plane-nope-drone/
They are there: I copied them. You will find them at the bottom.
“365_PHOTOS_CHALLENGEANDERSENSLAWOFINNOVATIONANNAPOLISANTI-OUTLETMALLATARIANBARBBARB25BARBVIDEOPRODUCERBERGENBLIZZARD2016BORINGMAN ”
This is good to see because this way you know where to look. The #’s don’t show when copied.
This is a long term issue. but the tags are on that post.
We post but they do not appear after the post is published
We are powerless however from the outside. And, often people managing things will just take suggestions as criticism and someone suffers callous treatment for suggesting. Not having tags is better than whole posts and pictures disappearing so I should count my blessings.
I have a caustic and dark sense of humor sometimes – I wore a Life Is Good T-shirt to work once that said “Half Full” with a picture of a glass. No one believed it. They said, “Full of what?”
This tag thing though depends on someone upstairs making tags or no tags decisions. To find my posts – go to my page I guess. They don’t belong with the others. (shoot, there I go again)
I know you are trying to help and it’s appreciated. I just don’t believe anything will change no matter what. Users shouldn’t have to sort this stuff. It causes misunderstandings and at the end of the day we will not hear from Virily, we will not have tags that work (they were turned off deliberately most likely), we will not have an explanation, and like I said nothing will change. Really and truly, Doc thank you for all the help you have provided everyone here already and thank you for continuing to want to help. This is just going to be a giant exercise in frustration. Someone from Virily needs to help or say that they won’t, that they want it this way, that, at least temporarily, they don’t care. Really, thank you. I don’t want to be feeling bad about stuff. I can accept whatever; but, I can’t believe that anyone representing Virily cares about me one iota. You and the other users here are as nice of people as one could ever hope to meet. You probably had existential Virily crises like I’m having now many times and you’re still here fighting and helping and posting. Someone from Virily needs to have the guts to say the policy. Stand up. Don’t pit users against each other.
Oh, and I’ve come to believe that the tags, or absence, have little or no bearing on outside views. It’s just internal. So, an inconvenience. It will pass or it won’t. We can’t affect anything here. I want the Virily founders to be successful in some way even if it just means pump up the page views and sell. They deserve something for all their efforts. I wish them well.
hey I completely understand. Helping and not being mean about it is a goal of the overall community, right!
I have 30 years of IT experience. solving computer problems is kind of my hobby.
This reply went to the wrong place – operator error** Doc, (sorry Grace)
We are powerless however from the outside. And, often people managing things will just take suggestions as criticism and someone suffers callous treatment for suggesting. Not having tags is better than whole posts and pictures disappearing so I should count my blessings.
I have a caustic and dark sense of humor sometimes – I wore a Life Is Good T-shirt to work once that said “Half Full” with a picture of a glass. No one believed it. They said, “Full of what?”
This tag thing though depends on someone upstairs making tags or no tags decisions. To find my posts – go to my page I guess. They don’t belong with the others. (shoot, there I go again)
I do often just go to specific authors pages to see if they have posted recently. I don’t mind!
If ever there was a post that bolsters the argument for the ability to edit comments then this may be it.
this would be one of 10 from this week 🙂
I hope that they have nothing to do with me. ?
those were just mine – i’ve seen one in three years from Carol. I’ve seen one from Kim as well (but only one) 🙂
It’s the first time I’ve seen one so close. Such a clear photo. Thank you for sharing this information.
Thanks.
The real picture is a little better. I processed this one for posting.
I spent a long time finding one that landed.
Never seen one so close .. Similar to you, I thought they’re black dots that fly LOL
I know they just float around incessantly and never stop. I remember they were mentioned in school to teach genetics. That was so long ago. I don’t remember ever seeing them or a picture.
Thanks for stopping in !
I too have not seen these flies this close Thanks for the photo. Tags do not appear when a draft is prepared. Also without tags the post is not published So I find it odd.
I put them in the box but they don’t appear on the posts. This seems to be true for most everyone. You can see them on some people’s posts. But also my posts don’t show up with other posts that are tagged. Like #MACRO MONDAY
Grace, there are no tags on your posts that I can detect. You may want to check. I don’t think they are working.
You are right. But I saw Hash tags on @Carol’s post.
Verified users have tags that work. I haven’t found anyone else that does. Mine have never worked since I became active again 2 or 3 months ago.
Good you told me this. There is no point then adding tags.
They may restore them so I would continue to add them. And, when it gets fixed you will know. You won’t know if it gets fixed if you stop adding them.
Thank you for your advice. I shall continue adding tags. Verified users I notice have many advantages. Their posts are posted without moderation and hence they appear the moment they are published. They can post on topics dedicated to days. Our will go past that day as moderation normally takes a day or two.
Never mind. I shall patiently wait to get that ‘verified’ tag (lol)
No one minds the post coming on the wrong day. That was always the case before any verified users. They have been here the whole time and deserve some privileges. They kept the place going. The tags should be fixed. But be sure to note that the day counts in the title and when we see it we know and it’s fine. Do not stop posting those because they might appear late. Everyone is happier if you participate. Surely!
With a hash tag. Right? He is a verified user and may be because of that.
And as for posting on topics that are dedicated to days I have enough of my own topics to post on and so may not do those yet. For 45 days I am here I have already written almost 100 posts and there is no dearth of ideas as far as I am concerned.
did you save this post as a draft? for some reason, drafts aren’t keeping tags lately…
I have never saved to drafts for two years. Learned some lesson on that – forgot what it was. There are a few users that have tags and the bulk don’t. You know, similar with the badges, if it was me and I was reworking a site then freezing some stuff would make sense as I rebuilt. It’s efficient. Retrofits are a snake pit. Building new is clean and faster.
I shouldn’t have asked. Now I realize that.
Thanks, man.
have you tried previewing?
I seem to have verified that only “verified users” have working tags. Now I’m sorry that I brought it up. Another unanswerable question that just makes me a Leper. No worries.
No one has them. I checked. Rex is the only one without an orange badge that has tags.
And his posting patterns imply that he’s verified and just doesn’t show a badge I guess.
that doesn’t make any sense… why should tags only be available to verified users?
There is probably a glitch. Or it’s turned off for rebuilding. The steps to post are probably different.
that spoon close up is crazy, BTW…
Thanks. I know, it looks so smooth and polished to the naked eye.
Macro Monday is big stuff on Twitter. #shucks
it almost looks like marble at this magnification…
Grace, I know. That’s what prompted me to ask about them. Macro Monday is big on Twitter and I don’t have that. However tags allow outside views of my posts which we get nothing for but I like to participate. And it’s nice to have people visit Virily. No one has working tags apparently. This hurts inside views. Say someone goes to #Macro Monday to check what they missed. Only verified users have stuff there. None of us do.How many verified users? Less than 10 maybe. I don’t know.
Alex, It does. I use those kind of tricks for collage. Lots of macro surfaces.
My favorite T-shirt from Pietrasanta, Italy where they carve was “Don’t take marble for granite.”
that works on so many different levels!
My newest series puts little tiny deer into macro environments that kind of look like life sized environments. Lots of surfaces work really well as macros and you can’t tell. I know, I love that shirt. Wish I had one!
I am looking forward to macro collages
Like if I survive this one? (actually laughing)
Next, I’m digging up that send up of Salvador Dali’s “In Voluptas Mors,” or Voluptuous Death, 1951- made entirely of dead flies. I’m ready for the audience grief again from that. (it tested badly as I said before)
This is a piece you could do an homage to as well. I can kind of see it!
sounds like a great choice for Halloween!
There are no tags on yours. I just checked one of your posts.
Grace, they are at the end, above the name of the user, below the upvote area, you’ll see. Alex does have them and I don’t at present.
There are lots of fruit flies in our garden.
I used to get them after I picked my apple tree and had more apples than I could store or give away quickly. I never noticed them outside. But we have gnats.
Cheers Alex.
We often see them during the hot summer seasons in South Africa
They do seem to accompany fruit.
Right now apples and plums are falling off the trees here. Fruit fly heaven I guess.
Oh of course they must be making the most of the annual paradise
Wooow, that’s a fantastic shot. I’ve never seen a fruit fly. Now I know who destroyed my fruit.
Yes, it is fun to have an image to blame. I have so many plums right now. I’m trying to freeze a bunch as fast as I can. The deer eat the ones that fall on the ground. That’s something I didn’t know was how much deer like fruit.
Cheers!
Wow, amazing what a macro photo can show you.
As for the tags, I am clueless. Never had that problem. When creating my post (usually a poll), the box appears under the image for the tags.
Thanks Carol.
I’ll keep trying different stuff. Cheers – have a great day.
I have heard of the fruit fly but I have never seen one. Or if I did I didn’t know it.
P.S. I also have problems with my tags. Weird. (O.o)
I have only been able to identify a few users who have tags. Took me a while to realize that the ones I typed in don’t work or show up. I’ve tried different things. I’m still investigating….
I remember as a kid that on Nightline during the 80’s that fruit flies were going to invade the US and devour every fruit tree in the country. I don’t see how anyone watches Nightline now without Ted Koppel.
… and “killer bees” – what happened with those?
Nightline is still on? Wow, am I out of touch. Now I’m imagining clouds of annoying little dots. Oh man, …
That’s a great macro picture. I hate the little buggers! What type of post were you doing? I haven’t had any problems putting in tags on a poll, embed or story.
Did you use any tags on “All About Eggs”? Because I don’t see them there if you did.
Luckily the little buggers have a short life. But yes, annoying little dots that they are.
Cheers! … and thanks.
I’m not seeing any tags on your posts Linda. If you remember what they were you may want to test them and see if your posts turn up. It’s not a big deal – I was just curious. 2 years ago tags worked for me but not any more.
I definitely put in tags. I never noticed that they weren’t there, Howard. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I’ll have to go take a look!!!!
I went to the “Topics” section and verified that my posts are not there with posts of the same tags I used. Since I wrote the post I have realized that only “verified users” have working tags. Nobody else does. Oh well. I’ll just wait. Apparently you need to put them in though (Grace mentioned that).
Odd that only the verified users would have working tags!
They bypass the way we post. It is probably an interim problem. It will pass.
Just as all the other glitches may pass one day.
I have to assume that if they are rebuilding the site then fixing old stuff is a moot point for them. Building new is cleaner and they are probably busy enough doing that. The page views since March are way up. It’s going in a positive direction. The site’s survival may be at stake and they are doing the right things maybe.
I hope so. There have been too many writing sites that have not gone the distance.
The situation here is a bit untenable with the Star Bellied Sneetches running amuck. Most everyone has left – I thought I would stay to help, but maybe we’re just here to view posts by a few who can post ad nauseam and we will provide page views but have no support and get no answers about the changes. I am honestly still wondering if I will be paid because it hasn’t happened yet and apparently somehow that changed but is not documented anywhere. We’ll see soon. I have lessened my content contribution to the extreme – getting paid might help.
I think they desperately need actual content but won’t get it by treating people the way I’ve seen and experienced lately.
Yes, I’ve wondered about payment myself.
That is am amazing macro. I love the picture , I haven’t see a fruit this close.
Thanks – I had never seen one either.