Really the title says it all!  I took a photo of a fly on a flowering shrub over the summer and the abdomen was REALLY shiny:

Fly on bush

So shiny, in fact, that I could see my reflection in the fly’s butt!  Check it out:

Of all the things you thought you might do today, I’d bet staring intently at a fly’s derriere wasn’t one of them.  :)

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