Posted by Roger Thomason on 22-06-2010 14:15
#1
Found these in the garden this morning...Male and female Palloptera umbellatarum?
Male..
Posted by Jan Willem on 22-06-2010 16:23
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Yes, correct! Nice pictures again Roger.
Posted by Roger Thomason on 23-06-2010 11:16
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Thanks for that Jan Willem...the male was photographed in the garden on Foxglove, the female was on an unaccessable Foxglove leaf to be photographed, so I tore the leaf off the plant and carried it into the greenhouse and took the pics on the staging. The female was so engrossed with what she was doing I could have taken many more than the 17 pics I took. The last picture of the female shows her scratching the surface of the leaf prior to egg laying. I then released her on another Foxglove plant in the garden. No point in her laying eggs on a leaf that had been torn off and was going to shrivel up. Wish all flies were so amenable.
Regards Roger
Edited by Roger Thomason on 23-06-2010 11:36