Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-11-2008 04:06
#1
Hello!
This night it has very mild temperatures (11 °C even now at 4 o'clock) for mid November here (northwest Germany). So I went out to look for some insects in the garden. Many flies and midges at the light, that also attracted predators...
The
Scatophaga below (over 10 mm, with long, slender wings; perhaps
S. scybalaria? or more likely
furcata?) flew several attacks on a large
Polietes, but that prey was too big. More luck it had with an 8 mm
Phaonia subventa female, which it could grab. But after a struggle of about three or four minutes, the
Phaonia could free itself, and both combatants rested next to each other in the light of my lamp.
Larger pictures of the
Scatophaga alone:
http://www.foto-u...0mm_M3.jpg
http://www.foto-u...0mm_M4.jpg
http://www.foto-u...0mm_M5.jpg
More pics of the struggle and the parties concerned here (text in German):
http://insektenfo...adid=20877
Edited by Juergen Peters on 16-11-2008 04:09
Posted by Juergen Peters on 17-11-2008 04:27
#5
I am raising this post a little bit, it has reached page #4 in only one day... :| Any suggestions for the identify of the Scatophagid?