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Simuliidae?
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Posted on 01-05-2012 20:04
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I saw just a few of these in the huge field of Allium ursinum nearby the water stream, about 300m above the sea level. Is it some of Simuliidae sp?

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Gerrit Oehm
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Posted on 01-05-2012 20:16
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It looks to me like a female of bibio marci, which fly just now...
It belongs to the family Bibionidae.
You can see often a lot of them now...
here they are flying in huge numbers!
 
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Posted on 01-05-2012 20:36
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Thank you Gerrit, it realy is Bibio marci. I photographed this one last year, at the beginning of May, but I haven't seen many of them. Perhaps I'm just looking for them at the wrong place.
 
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Killed by fungus?
 
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Posted on 01-05-2012 20:53
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It could be fungus... There is another one, attached to a plant, not moving at all. It looks already dead.

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Gerrit Oehm
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Posted on 02-05-2012 08:54
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I would like to know which kind of fungus (?) does that, maybe there are certain species...
I often see this kind of killed Empididae...
I made a new topic, where I aked the question:
http://www.dipter...d_id=47029
Edited by Gerrit Oehm on 02-05-2012 08:59
 
Gerrit Oehm
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Posted on 08-05-2012 07:43
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So it seems to be Entomophthora muscae!
A fungi which kills flys...
 
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