Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Flies from a dead dog - Part 1 (Centrophlebomyia)

Posted by Gordon on 21-02-2010 21:10
#51

Just got back from a trip to Dadia Forest (Turkish border) and the Nestos Gorge (half way between Kerkini and Dadia), I successfully collected C. furcata at both sites - the Nestos site is at 690 metres and was blowing a gale, the flies were crawling around carefully, hard to find but there, Dadia was easy. Now I will try and get permission to visit vulture feeding site at Prespa (on the far western side of the country) - finally I will try to get to Majhorova in Bulgaria. Meanwhile I am researching other feeding sites in the Balkans.

Jorge do you know anybody who could check out the feeding sites in Spain.
http://www.birdgu...asp?a=1297
Not sure what anybody would find, as they don't seem to use whole carcasses in all the sites, as they do in Greece.

All the material I collect will go to Paul for measurement - I'm feeling that size is important OK:D - anybody who wants specimens for their collections should contact him, or come and visit me here in Greece.:S

Centrophlebomyia furcata,
how I love your name.
Though I have mouthed a lot of flies
they just don't sound the same.

Centro
phlebo
my i a

also called 'furcata'

Is a fly
about which I
have just obtained some data.

:(

Edited by Gordon on 22-02-2010 09:04