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 The obtrusiveness of a fly
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| Anphim |
Posted on 26-06-2011 08:51
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 Member Location: Bryansk, Russia Posts: 21 Joined: 19.06.11 |
These photos (28.05.2011, Bryansk, Russia) demonstrate a clash between the fly and the cockchafer. At first the fly kept prolongedly sitting next to the beetle on the tree branch as though undecided, then it is stealthily coming… Anphim attached the following image:  [33.63Kb] Edited by Anphim on 26-06-2011 08:51 Anphim |
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| Anphim |
Posted on 26-06-2011 08:52
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Member Location: Bryansk, Russia Posts: 21 Joined: 19.06.11 |
Here the beetle has twitched out for a loathsome touch of the fly and the latter has taken wing but is staying quite near to its passion subject that has roughly rejected its courting…
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| Anphim |
Posted on 26-06-2011 08:53
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Member Location: Bryansk, Russia Posts: 21 Joined: 19.06.11 |
Here the fly is approaching to the beetle for the next time… When I showed these my photos to one insect-fancier he explained the strange behavior of the present fly by native dullness of such flies that always thrust themselves upon everything and all. Is he right? Are the flies so unscrupulous indeed or the fly’s infatuation for a cockchafer is possible? Anphim attached the following image:  [140.43Kb] Edited by Anphim on 26-06-2011 09:00 Anphim |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 26-06-2011 08:57
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Very interesting ... there are species of tachinid fly that parasitise beetles but this looks like a muscid, so I'm not sure what interest it would have in the chafer. Maybe someone else will be able to suggest something? 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Anphim |
Posted on 26-06-2011 11:50
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Member Location: Bryansk, Russia Posts: 21 Joined: 19.06.11 |
Maybe the fly thought the beetle dead or dying...
Edited by Anphim on 26-06-2011 11:57 Anphim |
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