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 Fly attacked by fungus?
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| Stephen |
Posted on 17-05-2011 11:24
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 Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Anyone recognize this unfortunate fly? Several of these small flys were on a single asparagus plant. They were motionless even when touched and I assumed they were dead. Victims of a fungus, perhaps? The photo was taken in the morning and I believe those are drops of morning dew on the fly. West Virginia garden, USA, on asparagus, 9 May 2011. Stephen attached the following image:  [79.2Kb] Edited by Stephen on 17-05-2011 11:26 --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 17-05-2011 12:18
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Definitely killed by an entomophagous fungus ... but not sure what the fly might be ... the wing venation is obscured by the flash and the head is pointing the wrong way 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 17-05-2011 15:06
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7346 Joined: 19.11.04 |
I'd say Anthomyiidae or Muscidae, and the fungus appears to be Entomophthora
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