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| Christian Kehlmaier |
Posted on 12-03-2010 13:32
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 Member Location: Dresden - Germany Posts: 55 Joined: 19.07.04 |
Hi there Ever tasted 100% pure Eristalis honey? The following pictures speak for themselves. One makes me smile but the other lets me shake my head in agony. I am sure that there are plenty more examples out there so please feel free to add as many as you find. If mankind needs a proof why morphological species knowledge isn't all that unimportant here it is ... Christian Kehlmaier attached the following image:  [105.52Kb] |
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| Christian Kehlmaier |
Posted on 12-03-2010 13:37
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Member Location: Dresden - Germany Posts: 55 Joined: 19.07.04 |
Ever been bitten by a tipulid? The title of this brochure is "Fight against Malaria -- DDT has to be kept under control" published recently by the German Federal Environment Agency! Christian Kehlmaier attached the following image:  [26.66Kb] Edited by Christian Kehlmaier on 12-03-2010 14:01 |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 12-03-2010 13:46
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 11809 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Consulting knowledgable people is very difficult!
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on www.diptera.info |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-03-2010 14:19
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 Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3524 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Paul Beuk wrote: Consulting knowledgable people is very difficult! Especially when choosing the first picture from Google is so much easier  (To be honest, one may be easily fooled while searching for an adequate picture in WikimediaCommons, also) Walter Pfliegler - Amateur Nature Photographer from Hungary (and molecular biologist) |
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| pierred |
Posted on 12-03-2010 20:51
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 Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1073 Joined: 21.04.05 |
Hi, On our French forum, one beekeeper told us that almost half of pictures printed in their professional newspapers pictured Eristalis Pierre Duhem |
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| John Bratton |
Posted on 15-03-2010 16:29
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Member Location: Menai Bridge, North Wales, UK Posts: 313 Joined: 17.10.06 |
It has a long history: "Out of the strong came forth sweetness". |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 15-03-2010 17:23
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 Member Location: Culemborg, the Netherlands Posts: 1307 Joined: 01.11.06 |
http://www.healthjockey.com/2008/08/26/new-mosquito-virus-to-wipe-out-malaria/ EDIT Paul Beuk: Url made clickable, but I get this: Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /2008/08/26/new-mosquito-virus-to-wipe-out-malaria/ on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Edited by Paul Beuk on 15-03-2010 22:28 ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| Christian Kehlmaier |
Posted on 08-10-2012 12:08
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Member Location: Dresden - Germany Posts: 55 Joined: 19.07.04 |
The following was found by Martin Hauser and Chris Raper and posted at the Diptera-group on FB. But it is simply too good not to be included here as well. http://store.mary...EKJ8I2.htm 
Edited by ChrisR on 08-10-2012 12:10 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 08-10-2012 12:13
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 6959 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Thanks Christian - it looks like one of those usual "howlers" where a company uses an image and then replicates it across their products ... before they check whether it is actually a bee  To be fair to them, it looks like the body is close to a bee ... it's just the wings that are all wrong
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London, Coordinator for the UK Tachinid Recording Scheme, my Diptera blog |
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...what you prefer, we can discus this, during some good wine, cheese and many new pinned flies!