Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly bubble blowing

Posted by LordV on 15-05-2006 09:09
#39

Found a bee-fly bubble blowing- but did it at the near end of it's proboscis. It was very obviously giving its probe/tubes a good clean from the manipulations that were going on. Makes me wonder if the bubble blowing is a way of cleaning out the tubes in this and other flies?
Brian V.

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