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Some unlucky pseudoscorpions
ChrisR
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Posted on 03-11-2009 00:01
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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 Smile
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another angle...
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Sometimes it seems to be safer walking than taking a cabGrin

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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.

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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?
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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 Smile

I'm just amazed that the little strat was able to fly with so many things clinging to the back-end.
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