Posted by Juergen Peters on 07-06-2005 20:47
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...is very widespread among syrphids. But this
Temnostoma bombylans I photographed today still went beyond: when I came near, it used its darker forelegs to mimic the (moving) antennae of a wasp! Such behaviour I knew from some jumping spiders (Salticidae), but not from a fly.
