Calliphora subalpina, Dalgety Bay - Braefoot

In these covid times the lack of variety in location speaks for itself, but this species I've found here, at Cullaloe LNR and Lochgelly, so there's a good chance it's at all my other patches with some woodland too. Lochgelly doesn't even have much woodland (at least, on the north bank where I would have found it. Those three are the only Fife records I know, but Calliphoridae are badly under-represented in Fife recording.

Norellisoma spinimanum in Dalgety Bay

Up to no good in the undergrowth, and with those spines you wouldn't want to be a prey item! Known from a few other sites around the county, this probably isn't an uncommon fly.

Mydaea urbana and Fannia lustrator

Lots of fly action now the leaves are green and the temperature's rising. These two species from different families (Muscidae, Faniidae) have a lot in common regarding appearance, but a dark front femur is common across many families, especially on the fore/upper parts. I'm sure i read somewhere that melanin makes feathers stronger and maybe it's a similar reason, but I might be misremembering that entirely.