Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Is this Musca domestica?

Posted by John Carr on 08-01-2011 01:29
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Fly landed on my foot while we were eating outside a house in Massachusets, USA. I think Musca domestica. It is not Stomoxys calcitrans -- no long, hard beak. (I once photographed the latter species on my leg not realizing it was a biter until I saw the blood.)

Striped thorax, pale brown abdomen, and shape of M vein point towards a common house fly.