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Posted by Roger Thomason on 30-06-2009 22:10

Found this little fly tonight in the garden. It's a new one for me and looks kind of similar to D.immigrans in the Gallery, but doesn't seem to have the dark banding on the abdomen..or D.melanogaster???..any ideas what it might be? Only got one shot at it (but I know where it lives):@.
Size 2mm max.
Whatever it is....a new one for Shetland.

Regards Roger

Edited by Roger Thomason on 30-06-2009 23:39

Posted by Roger Thomason on 02-07-2009 22:53

Defeatist attitude that Paul..:P...Looks bad to us plebs :|:|

No thoughts on what it could be????

Regards Roger

Posted by Roger Thomason on 03-07-2009 09:24

Paul Beuk wrote:
If you know where it lives, get some more shots. Then I won't be defeatistic anymore.

Knowing where it lives and being able to find it, and getting good shots of/at it are the problem. A bit like finding Bin Laden. Unlike the aforementioned B.L. this little fly lives in a clump of Geranium with spent Bluebell leaves underneath and a Goat Willow growing up through that. It is where I photographed a not much larger Doli. Achalcus sp. a few days ago.
Maybe I should just call it Drosophila binLadenii or Scaptomyza binLadenii, but maybe someone would take out a fatwa or something on me...that would be a first :D.
Regards Roger

Edited by Roger Thomason on 03-07-2009 15:10

Posted by Paul Beuk on 03-07-2009 10:56

If only you just snatched this Bin Laden. It might bring you a bundle if you hand him over to 'the Feds'. :D

Posted by Roger Thomason on 03-07-2009 15:15

I think the "Feds" et al are probably as harmful as B.L. Wouldn't touch them with a Bargepole....still no sign of that bloody fly yet :|.

Roger