These beautiful Long Legged Flies reflect sunlight with ever changing colours, one moment green, the next moment yellow, red or orange. They are a very welcome sight to gardeners as they prey on thrips, aphids and spider mite as well as larvae of various insects.
They are extremely beneficial and extremely attractive and their elaborate dance behaviour on leaves can be rather fun to watch too. I love taking photos of them but they jump incredibly fast if the flash goes off on the camera so one needs good sunlight to capture them at their shiniest and best.