Posted by gardensafarinl on 05-02-2006 17:08
#6
Zeegers wrote:
Gardensafari,
I think your site is great!
The people who criticize Gymnosoma nudifrons, might simple not be familiar with the species. It has been described as recently as 1966. Most old records of 'rotundatum' refer actually to nudifrons.
I had a good look at your site,
and I'm now confident that this is indeed, a female nudifrons.
So don't worry about the critics, just send them my critics.
Theo
Thanks a lot, Theo. I do my best and I am still happy I stick to what lives in my garden, otherwise I would certainly run out of time. Flies and wasps are still the most difficult groups. I know, there are some micro moth families which are terrible too. And of course aphids and such aren't very easy either. Problem seems to be there are only a limited number of people interested in these groups (except for syrphids, which for some reason or another are extremely popular). But I am glad that many of my question do get an answer here. Some pictures apparently don't mean a thing to anyone, so that's a good reason to put them back where they came from: the archives.
Well it is still winter, so maybe another fly will pop up from the archives. This is the time of year to work on the site and the pictures etc. Let's hope there will be a lot of life again in about one month... It is rather 'dead' outside nowadays. Except for a few very small mosquitoes of course. I'll save them for later, for many are so small my camera won't like them....
Cheers,
Hans