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pretty silver fly = Chamaemyiidae
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Hello everyone, i am doing some night work at my balcony and i found this beautiful silvery white fly. I don't know what it is. I have not seen anything like it before. I'd rather post a query than to research for hours. Any help is appreciated. The fly was attracted to light. I couldn't work with it more because a lacewing crashed into it and it did not return.

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Hello John,

perhaps Chamaemyiidae?
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Hello Jürgen, I think so too. I wasn't sure so i decided to post a query. I feel confident now that you also think so. Thank you very much Jürgen Smile

I hope to meet this fly again. I think it is very pretty but i want a positive id which may require microscopic photos or genitalia.
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One of the Leucopis species
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Tony Irwin wrote:
One of the Leucopis species


Thank you Sir Tony, this is a big help Smile

i am doing more night work but i haven't seen it. I found a Tephritidae, a Thervediae, a bunch of moths, Chironomidae and beetles attracted to my light. I found a ladybug (ladybird) that i've been trying to find for two years now. Finally found it at my balcony. life is strange. I expect to find it in the woods but i find it at home in a big city.
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Hello John,

johnes81 wrote:
I found a ladybug (ladybird) that i've been trying to find for two years now. Finally found it at my balcony.


may I ask, which one? (Myself just returned from a light session in the garden with some new species of moths (for me)).
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Hello ,

Anatis ocellata has escaped me for two years now. I have over twenty Marienkaefer but not this one. I feel like everyone finds it but me. Tonight it landed on my balcony attracted o light. I'm shocked. I've searched for it in six different places with no luck. I live in an apartment so i don't have a garden either. I've been frustrated because i even found the only two Chilocorus species in Deutschland. Hopefully, you also have photos of Anatis ocellata. Maybe it is just scarce in certain areas of Berlin.
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