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Posted on 06-05-2008 10:12
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 on a Horse chestnut tree & wild fruit trees in Richmond Pk London:

female eating a St Marks Fly
www.pbase.com/image/96616836.jpg

www.pbase.com/racketman/image/96671791.jpg

this seemed to ba a slightly smaller species:

www.pbase.com/racketman/image/96671796.jpg

www.pbase.com/racketman/image/96671797.jpg
 
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 Empis tessellata (top) and Empis femorata (bottom).
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 thanks, I wasn't familiar with the smaller species.
 
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 I collected it on Mitcham Common where it was swarming in 1989.
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