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 Some unlucky pseudoscorpions
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 03-11-2009 00:01
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I found this lovely little stratiomyid fly in the recent batch from French Guiana - with a few unwanted (and quite unlucky, considering it dropped into the Malaise) passengers. Just thought people might like to see it for fun 
ChrisR attached the following image:  [54.79Kb] Edited by ChrisR on 03-11-2009 10:43 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 03-11-2009 00:01
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
another angle...
ChrisR attached the following image:  [60.03Kb] Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Rupert Huber |
Posted on 03-11-2009 04:52
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 Member Location: Germany / South-East Bavaria Posts: 761 Joined: 19.07.07 |
Sometimes it seems to be safer walking than taking a cab Best greetings Rupert |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 03-11-2009 09:37
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Bit of a bummer when you go on an internal flight in French Guiana and end up in Reading, England. Nearly as bad as Ryanair. Roger@Scatsta Airport.....Oil Charters + Diversions only. |
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| conopid |
Posted on 03-11-2009 10:36
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 Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1039 Joined: 02.07.04 |
I've come across several flies in the UK, similarly laden with pseudoscorpion cargo. usually just one, but on one occasion three. What are they doing?
Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 03-11-2009 10:45
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I just assumed that they were phoretic ... using the stratiomyid as a taxi service to disperse around the forest, but I'm not 100% sure. The only other pseudoscorpion in this batch was also attached to the back leg of a stratiomyid so there must be something about the lifecycle of strats + pseudoscorpions that creates this situation I'm just amazed that the little strat was able to fly with so many things clinging to the back-end. Edited by ChrisR on 03-11-2009 10:46 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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