Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 musca autumnalis ?
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| oceanlis2000 |
Posted on 16-12-2010 10:56
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Member Location: Wales, UK Posts: 570 Joined: 15.06.10 |
Saw Nicks photos and wondered if mine were the same Musca autumnalis, I initially thought they couldn't be identified but perhaps I'm wrong Taken in Wales on 08 07 10, lots of pairs about in the woodland With Best Wishes Elisabeth oceanlis2000 attached the following image:  [129.73Kb] |
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| oceanlis2000 |
Posted on 16-12-2010 10:57
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Member Location: Wales, UK Posts: 570 Joined: 15.06.10 |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 16-12-2010 12:51
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14423 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello, Elisabeth! oceanlis2000 wrote: Musca autumnalis I am quite sure, you're right. Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 16-12-2010 13:45
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
I'm no taxonomist, but they look just right to me too, and I'll bet it was a warm, sunny, windless day, which the ones in my area always choose for males to gather in groups on sunlit leaves, and buzz off to chase passing females, and then form mating pairs in vegetation nearby. There were probably some cattle or horses around nearby as well; they're known as "face flies" as they target secretions from livestock especially from the eyes (and often transmit infections...) and lay eggs in dung.
Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| oceanlis2000 |
Posted on 10-01-2011 15:33
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Member Location: Wales, UK Posts: 570 Joined: 15.06.10 |
Thanks very much for your replies, never thought I'd get this one sorted |
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