Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Simuliidae?
Posted by human fly on 01-05-2012 20:04
#1
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?
Posted by Gerrit Oehm on 01-05-2012 20:16
#2
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!
Posted by human fly on 01-05-2012 20:36
#3
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.
Posted by John Carr on 01-05-2012 20:37
#4
Killed by fungus?
Posted by human fly on 01-05-2012 20:53
#5
It could be fungus... There is another one, attached to a plant, not moving at all. It looks already dead.
Posted by Gerrit Oehm on 02-05-2012 08:54
#6
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
Posted by Gerrit Oehm on 08-05-2012 07:43
#7
So it seems to be Entomophthora muscae!
A fungi which kills flys...