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 Fly on a dead cow horn
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| Gordon |
Posted on 27-12-2009 17:11
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 Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
Found this in a pine forest above Sidhirokastro (nr Lake Kerkini) today 27-Dec-2009, it was with a number of flies that in my photos look a lot like the Heleomyzid N. ruficeps that I posted from the dead dog, but it was much larger than them, more than twice as long. It jumped onto several of the Heleos - straddled them completely - like it wanted to mate - but they simply walked out from under it. It has spongiform mouth parts - not predatory P&S type.
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| Gordon |
Posted on 27-12-2009 17:13
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Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
It was on a rather old dead cows horn.
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| Gordon |
Posted on 27-12-2009 17:14
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Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
It came back at least twice after being scared off - so it wasn't there by accident. It was 15C here at the time and the sun was nearly visible.
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 27-12-2009 17:24
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2412 Joined: 05.01.06 |
Dryomyzidae :-) dr. A. J. Woznica, Institute of Environmental Biology, Wroclaw University of Environmental & Life Sciences |
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| Gordon |
Posted on 28-12-2009 06:31
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Member Location: Lake Kerkini, Greece Posts: 1101 Joined: 02.01.08 |
Yes Andrzej you're right, that fits the wing pattern and size,  now I wish I had caught it.
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