Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sarcophaga sp.? 6mm
Posted by blowave on 01-05-2011 21:00
#1
Hello,
This bright little spark was jumping in the air and landing on the side of a bird bath, it doesn't look like a Musca to me.
22nd April, my garden near Lincoln UK.
Janet :)
Edited by blowave on 02-05-2011 13:38
Posted by blowave on 01-05-2011 21:02
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pic 2
Posted by blowave on 01-05-2011 21:03
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pic 3
Posted by blowave on 01-05-2011 21:03
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pic 4
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 01-05-2011 21:17
#5
It seems to be an
Amobia, Sarcophagidae. No wasps around ?
Posted by blowave on 01-05-2011 23:02
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Stephane Lebrun wrote:
It seems to be an Amobia, Sarcophagidae. No wasps around ?
Aha, that rings a bell! I had one last year but it was probably the other sex, a female? The colouring is different.
http://diptera.in...ost_156708
And, in between getting this fly there appeared another one which is probably a female! I hadn't noticed it was different until editing.
I have plenty of wasps about, is there one in particular it is interested in? There was none I could see at the time but there could have been a mating in mind. ;)
The other fly, the only shot I got of it but it looks more like the one I had last year.
Edited by blowave on 01-05-2011 23:05
Posted by ChrisR on 01-05-2011 23:11
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This is just a standard "
Sarcophaga" s.l. :)
Posted by blowave on 02-05-2011 13:38
#8
ChrisR wrote:
This is just a standard "Sarcophaga" s.l. :)
Thanks Chris, it sure didn't look like a 'standard' Sarcophaga. I'll change the title.