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ID please for this congregation of flies
Toby
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 live.staticflickr.com/65535/53764679514_e6460cf80e_c.jpgP6020076 congregation of flies by tobyjug5, on Flickr
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 Scatopsidae (but, I think, hardly identifiable further).
 
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 Similar aggregations of rather plump Scatopsidae often prove to be Anapausis sp. but specimens are needed for proper ID.
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