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 Thanks for the marvelous picture !!
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 Yet another one (Ephrydridae), from Brasil, posted by Chis:

www.diptera.info/forum/attachments/dsc_9450.jpg
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 Photographed this little Tephritidae Dioxyna bidentis cleaning its wings and blowing a bubble. Seems to be stretching the mouthparts a fair bit to get the bubble out, but it is quite large in comparison with the head
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 Another D.bidentis sunning itself and blowing a bubble.
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 Yet another Ephydridae from Tanzania, by Muhammad Mahdi, identified as Chlorichaeta sp. by Tony Irwin :

www.diptera.info/forum/attachments/600fly.jpg
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 Even in death this fly was still blowing a bubble.
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 I guess that was the last bit of life being squeezed out if it...
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 Rotterdam 10 april 09, cloudy above 20* celsius
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 Can anyone help an extreme novice ID this lovely bubbley?
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 22april2009 between 12 and 16' celsius, rotterdam, down sealevel
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 They are even blowing bubbles in South Africa! Smile) I named this one "the entertainer" for obvious reasons.
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 As a new member I have read this thread with great interest. At the present stage of the discussion, the 'aid to digestion' theory seems the most plausible. Is anything known about the chemistry of external digestion? Is it possible that an enzyme in the digestive juices is synthesised or activated more efficiently under UV or other radiation? (LordV hinted at something similar in post #20.) If so, flies may have evolved to bubble when fresh supplies are required and they feel safe enough (and they may occasionally do it when there isn't much radiation about, on the grounds that a little is better than nothing). Is the saliva for external digestion distinct from the stomach juices, and if so is there a reservoir for it big enough to contain a bubble?
 
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 2009.06.17 - Apulia beach - Esposende - Braga - PORTUGAL
Mythicomyiidae - Empidideicus hackmani
farm3.static.flickr.com/2592/3675150471_9aa06163c7_b.jpg

and the thread is here:
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 Yet another one by Lagura :
www.diptera.info/forum/attachments/090613_uabb.jpg
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 A Phytobia by Roger Thomason, det. Kahis :
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 Tethina illota (Canacidae)
The sky was very cloudy

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 GREAT VIDEO! Well done! Wink
 
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 Cephalodromia cf. nitens (Mythicomyiidae)

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 Sepsis punctum

diptera.info/forum/attachments/sepsidae_id.jpg

I'll look through my stuff and see if I have more Smile
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 pic from yesterday, 07.10.09, so I'v no ID of the flys
even in copula the female was blowing bubbles . . . .
best regards, Brigitte
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