Thread subject: Diptera.info :: The obtrusiveness of a fly
Posted by Anphim on 26-06-2011 08:51
#1
These photos (28.05.2011, Bryansk, Russia) demonstrate a clash between the fly and the cockchafer.
At first the fly kept prolongedly sitting next to the beetle on the tree branch as though undecided, then it is stealthily coming…
Edited by Anphim on 26-06-2011 08:51
Posted by Anphim on 26-06-2011 08:52
#2
Here the beetle has twitched out for a loathsome touch of the fly and the latter has taken wing but is staying quite near to its passion subject that has roughly rejected its courting…
Posted by Anphim on 26-06-2011 08:53
#3
Here the fly is approaching to the beetle for the next time…
When I showed these my photos to one insect-fancier he explained the strange behavior of the present fly by native dullness of such flies that always thrust themselves upon everything and all. Is he right? Are the flies so unscrupulous indeed or the fly’s infatuation for a cockchafer is possible?
Edited by Anphim on 26-06-2011 09:00
Posted by ChrisR on 26-06-2011 08:57
#4
Very interesting ... there are species of tachinid fly that parasitise beetles but this looks like a muscid, so I'm not sure what interest it would have in the chafer. Maybe someone else will be able to suggest something? :)
Posted by Anphim on 26-06-2011 11:50
#5
Maybe the fly thought the beetle dead or dying...
Edited by Anphim on 26-06-2011 11:57