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 unknown fly.. please help
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| mrsparkes |
Posted on 02-04-2011 14:10
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Member Location: Posts: 2 Joined: 28.03.11 |
i snapped this fly the other day in my back garden. i live in the UK ,england, and have never seen anything like this in our country. the last thing i saw that looked remotly like this was a large moth in greece, which was collecting nectar from flowers.. in the same way a humming bird would i supose. at first i thought it was a small bee, then on closer inspection saw it had a large black proboscus/ nose sticking out of the face of it.. any ideas what it is called... sry some problem uploading picture... Edited by mrsparkes on 02-04-2011 14:18 |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 02-04-2011 14:19
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 Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Look forward to seeing the picture  . In the mean time, have a look at Bombylius major in the Gallery.Stephen. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 02-04-2011 14:37
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Welcome to the forum. Sounds like Bombylius major - a beefly ... an outside chance of it being the flower-bee Anthophora plumipes. Check the photo-upload guidelines and re-upload the photo: must not have spaces or unnecessary punctuation in the file name; and must be <190KB in size
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| mrsparkes |
Posted on 02-04-2011 18:02
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thanks for the quick reply looks like your spot on with the Bombylius major idea by the look of it... id say thats the fellow .. im working on the pic now.. jpg image image im playing with in photoshop to re size...
mrsparkes attached the following image:  [166.66Kb] Edited by mrsparkes on 02-04-2011 18:16 |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 02-04-2011 20:25
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19311 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Yup, Bombylius major it is.
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