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 Tachinid fly ? ?
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| LordV |
Posted on 07-05-2011 07:42
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This smallish fly around 6mm body length was intently following a nomada bee around which in turn was looking for miner bee nests. Taken yesterday South coast UK. Brian V.  |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-05-2011 07:57
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Sarcophagidae - Milltogramminae 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| LordV |
Posted on 07-05-2011 09:21
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Thanks Chris. Only reason I thought it might be a tachinid was it looked as if it was aiming to parasitise the Nomada bee - Gather the Miltogramminae are Kleptoparasites of ground dwelling bees or wasps. Wonder if it was interested in the nomada bee, miner bees or both Brian v. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-05-2011 09:34
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Yes, I'm not sure which species they were going for but the classic behaviour is to find them flying around the holes of ground-nesting bees and looking a bit "suspicious"!  On a more morphological note, they have red eyes and stripes on the thorax and a strongly concave, elongate R5 cell so they scream "Sarcophagidae". Edited by ChrisR on 07-05-2011 09:36 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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