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 Large fluffy fly - Scotland (Cephenemyia)
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| djo |
Posted on 20-06-2014 14:11
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Member Location: Edinburgh, UK Posts: 187 Joined: 16.05.11 |
Large fluffy fly in Scotland (photographed recently by a friend). Has a feeling of Oestridae to me, but the only thing I know about is Drosophila. And it's not one of those....
djo attached the following image:  [88.77Kb] Edited by djo on 20-06-2014 14:44 |
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| djo |
Posted on 20-06-2014 14:12
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Member Location: Edinburgh, UK Posts: 187 Joined: 16.05.11 |
Assuming it is even a fly. Have I embarrassed myself here? |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 20-06-2014 14:31
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 Member Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 9871 Joined: 22.10.10 |
I think Cephenemyia. Larvae in noses of Cervidae ("deer nose bot flies"). |
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| djo |
Posted on 20-06-2014 14:44
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Member Location: Edinburgh, UK Posts: 187 Joined: 16.05.11 |
Thank you! |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 20-06-2014 17:04
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7193 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Such a cute fly! Only ever seen it once.
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 20-06-2014 18:06
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Very, very nice find - they are extremely rare these days because domesticated livestock are soaked in insecticides these days  Please post your record in to iRecord so that it can be mapped. There isn't an Oestrid recording scheme but I'd be happy to add them to our scope 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| djo |
Posted on 20-06-2014 18:19
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Member Location: Edinburgh, UK Posts: 187 Joined: 16.05.11 |
Not my find! Credit goes to a friend of mine. It was probably living up the noses of one of these guys http://rumdeer.bi...-hall-fame , who're certainly not soaked in insecticide! |
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but don't see the image in the post.