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Grey Female Antho...??
Roger Thomason
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Posted on 01-06-2011 05:51
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Clueless as usual on this 4mm fly found yesterday in the garden.
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Perhaps some Pegomya? Have you a better shot of the hind tarsus?

(The above is lifted verbatim from Flymanship, a sadly unpublished masterpiece of the late Stephen Potter.)
 
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[quote]Stephen R wrote:
Perhaps some Pegomya? Have you a better shot of the hind tarsus?(quote]

(The above quote was lifted verbatim from a sadly published thread in Diptera.info, which was first scribbled on the back of a fag packet by the still alive (just) Stephen Robinson).

Answer by the deeply disappointed enquiree....NO!

EDIT; Would it have made any difference?
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That is, of course, the RIGHT ANSWER, to which the recommended response is 'hmm'. (This is, incidentally, the recommended response to all lines in this defence.)
 
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