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Posted by Roger Thomason on 20-04-2009 12:38

Photographed this morning in my garden at Mango bait. Is it S.furcata?

Posted by Roger Thomason on 20-04-2009 14:10

Oh no...:|...I thought they had black antennae. Front femur looks the wrong colour from previous ones I've had determined as S.stercoraria. Back to the drawing board ...again.
Cheers Nikita, you've made a happy man very old, should be the other way around.
Regards Roger

Posted by Tony Irwin on 20-04-2009 18:57

Well, I don't think it's stercoraria - looks more like lutaria to me (only one av seta on mid tibia).
You enjoy your birthday - don't listen to Nikita - next thing he'll be telling you there's no mango trees on Shetland!

Posted by Roger Thomason on 21-04-2009 03:07

Hi Tony
I don't think it's stercoraria either...don't suppose Nikita's been on the sherbet do you :D. Mango grows on trees :o I thought they lived in cardboard boxes.
"Mango trees are renown for their scarcity up here, so when the cardboard boxes arrive, we all stand around looking in wonder ;) at these strange fruits from somewhere across the sea (that taste like crap *)"..Extract from; Shetland, a Simple Life...Cont. on page 94.

*Flies seem to like them though

Regards Roger...58 not out.

Edited by Roger Thomason on 21-04-2009 07:54

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 21-04-2009 10:52

I consulted with expert - Andrey Ozerov:
"either stercoraria or furcata, so with image only S.sp." :P
And

there's no mango trees on Shetland!

Posted by Roger Thomason on 21-04-2009 15:58

OZEROV Hmm?..Sounds like a poorly disguised British Spy to me. O /Zero /V =005, if he had one of these Scathophaga named after him, say Ozerovii, he would become 007, which would be a fitting name for something that humps a lot and kills a lot. Doesn't drink Martini does he?
I'm going with furcata :P in my Files, don't tell anyone. especially Ozerov.

Regards Roger

No room to plant Mango trees because of the Bananas.....a much better fruit.

Edited by Roger Thomason on 21-04-2009 18:01