Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Dolichopodidae?

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 11-05-2006 18:03
#1

Size ca. 3mm.
On trunk of Alnus, near a brook, May 11, 2006.
Moved with characteristic quick side dashes.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 14-05-2006 17:56
#2

I think the same species, this time on Betula, May 14, 2006.
A difficult target, rather timid.

Posted by Kahis on 14-05-2006 18:47
#3

This too is Medetera (Dolichopodidae)

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 14-05-2006 20:55
#4

OK OK thanks I've already seen the post by Nikita. Didn't manage to capture a single one, though :(.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 16-05-2006 17:54
#5

I fiddled around with these flies quite a while this morning. So there's some of the results. They seem to be less fidgety early in the morning. Later I discovered that they visit birch logs lying on the ground, too, and can be found at different places, such as fragments of brickwork at a deserted sawmill; one even came down on my black tripod bag.