• Insects
  • Insects
    • What are insects?
    • Why most animals are insects
    • Metamorphosis: a remarkable change
    • Herbivory: eating plants
    • Predators, parasites and parasitoids
    • Pollination
    • Seed dispersal
    • Decomposition - Corpse Fauna
  • Insects that bite and sting
    • Insect bites and stings
    • Ants: Family Formicidae
    • Bees: Suborder Apocrita
    • Wasps: Suborder Apocrita
    • Beach rove beetles
  • Australian insects
    • Ants: Family Formicidae
    • Bees: Suborder Apocrita
    • Beetles: Order Coleoptera
    • Cicadas: Superfamily Cicadoidea
    • Cockroaches: Order Blattodea
    • Dragonflies and damselflies: Order Odonata
    • Flies and mosquitoes: Order Diptera
    • Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids and locusts: Order Orthoptera
    • Lacewings and Antlions: Order Neuroptera
    • Leaf and Stick Insects: Order Phasmatodea
    • Moths, butterflies and skippers: Order Lepidoptera
    • Praying mantises: Order Mantodea
    • Sawflies, Wasps, Bees and Ants: Order Hymenoptera
    • Wasps: Suborder Apocrita
    • What are the differences between butterflies and moths?
    • What are the differences between bugs and beetles?
    • What are the differences between ants and termites?
    • What are the differences between flies and wasps?
  • Insects in the house and garden
    • Ants as pests
    • Ants: Family Formicidae
    • Termites as pests
    • What are the differences between ants and termites?
    • Flies and mosquitoes: Order Diptera
    • House Fly
    • Cockroaches: Order Blattodea
    • Termites
    • Beetles: Order Coleoptera
    • Case-bearing Clothes Moth
  • Insects in the Australian Museum Collections
    • Australian Museum Entomology Collection
    • Stalk-eyed Signal Flies
    • Rare - or just hidden?
    • Wombat Flies
    • Phantom Phasmids
    • More than Insects
    • Behind the Scenes - Entomology
• About the Museum
• What's on
• Visiting the Australian Museum

Image Gallery: Flies and mosquitoes

The insect order Diptera - meaning 'two pairs of wings' - contains flies of all shapes, colours and sizes, including the mosquitoes.

Crane fly adult

Australian Sheep Blowfly on Eucalypt flower

Hover Fly on Lantana

Hover fly larva

Hover fly pupa

Robber fly with captured bee

Steel-blue sawfly

Steel-blue sawfly larva

Robber flies mating

Adult mosquito sitting on leaf

Mosquito pupa