Posted by blowave on 12-09-2010 21:35
#1
Hello,
This one has me a little stumped, I only got one pic of it. I'm not sure of the size but it could have been anything between 4 to 6mm.
Taken on 8th September 2010, my garden a few miles south of Lincoln UK.
A family would be good, a genus even better, thanks! Maybe this is Calliopum sp.?
Janet :)
Edited by blowave on 13-09-2010 00:21
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 12-09-2010 21:48
#2
It is Muscid, Hydrotaea, probably aenescens.
Posted by blowave on 13-09-2010 00:20
#3
Thank you Nikita, that was a surprise. I have looked at your pics in the gallery, they look black.
Is mine green for any particular reason, maybe what it has fed on? It doesn't look to be newly emerged but maybe it is. It looks like a gravid female.
Hydrotaea aenescens is an imported alien here, it is listed on the NBN Gateway but there is no distribution map. It seems the larva are used for fishing bait, there are fishing lakes not far away but there's also horses around. I rarely see house flies.. :D