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 Simuliidae?
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| human fly |
Posted on 01-05-2012 20:04
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Member Location: Zagreb, Croatia Posts: 14 Joined: 04.07.11 |
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 |
Posted on 01-05-2012 20:16
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Member Location: Germany Posts: 180 Joined: 26.11.11 |
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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| human fly |
Posted on 01-05-2012 20:36
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Member Location: Zagreb, Croatia Posts: 14 Joined: 04.07.11 |
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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| John Carr |
Posted on 01-05-2012 20:37
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 Super Administrator Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 10550 Joined: 22.10.10 |
Killed by fungus? |
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| human fly |
Posted on 01-05-2012 20:53
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Member Location: Zagreb, Croatia Posts: 14 Joined: 04.07.11 |
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 |
Posted on 02-05-2012 08:54
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Member Location: Germany Posts: 180 Joined: 26.11.11 |
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 |
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| Gerrit Oehm |
Posted on 08-05-2012 07:43
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Member Location: Germany Posts: 180 Joined: 26.11.11 |
So it seems to be Entomophthora muscae! A fungi which kills flys... |
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