Posted by totipotent on 21-04-2006 14:24
#4
Kahis wrote:
I'm sure Iain or Paul will soon correct me and tell us why it is something else :)
Kahis,
I don't think you have anything to worry about - it's a Muscidae.
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Black wrote:
I'm not even sure where the head is, it made some orientation movements with its narrow pointed end (or were these respiratory?).
Black,
Nice observation work; The narrow end is the "head." Brachycerans flies don't have a head capsule, like Nematocerans do. Nematocera and Brachycera are suborders to the fly order, Diptera. The black things at the tip of the "head" are mouth hooks. the picture of the fat end shows both posterior sets of spiracles.
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