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 parasite fly
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| shar |
Posted on 15-05-2006 11:38
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Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06 |
Dear Members, Does anyone knows what the name is of this parasite fly? I saw this fly in my garden a few days ago. (Delft) An answer is very much appreciated. Kind regards Shar shar attached the following image:  [123.5Kb] |
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| shar |
Posted on 15-05-2006 11:43
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Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06 |
In relation to my previous message. Is it possible that the parasite fly laid his eggs on this spanner? (also found in my garden) rgrds, Shar shar attached the following image:  [63.14Kb] |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 15-05-2006 17:00
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19133 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Hi Shar This is clearly a Mintho rufiventris. The pattern on the thorax is characteristic, as is the wing venation (long appendix to bend in vein M). The host are to be found in the microlepidoptera, especially Pyralidae. So your geometrid caterpillar is an unlikely host. Theo Zeegers |
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| shar |
Posted on 15-05-2006 17:40
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Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06 |
Dear Theo, Thank you so much. Kind regards, Shar |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 16-05-2006 00:48
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Hi Shar ... can you say where you are and where you saw this fly?  Also, would you mind if I used this photo on my website http://tachinidae...?  |
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| shar |
Posted on 16-05-2006 06:08
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Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06 |
Dear Chris, I am at home at the moment... ;-) Just, joking, I live in Delft (NL) and the arialcode is: 2611 WN. I am not familiar with other codes? I saw the fly in my garden. And yes you may use the picture(s) for your website. Maybe you are also interested in the picture of my bufo bufo covered with eggs/larfs (subject: two different flies mating). It is very likely a case of Lucilia bufonivora. I saw this toad in the forest of Emmen. Kind regards, Shar |
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| Robert Nash |
Posted on 16-05-2006 09:32
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Member Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland Posts: 288 Joined: 11.11.05 |
Where it can join the other photos  (http://tachinidae.org.uk/site/index.php -see Pauls increasingly comprehensive weblinks) Congratulations Chris) A really great pic of a really great fly Shar. keep them coming . This is a very visual science. Its a nice day in Belfast Robert
Edited by Robert Nash on 16-05-2006 09:34 |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 16-05-2006 10:02
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
shar wrote: Maybe you are also interested in the picture of my bufo bufo covered with eggs/larfs (subject: two different flies mating). It is very likely a case of Lucilia bufonivora. This will not be Lucilia bufonivora. That species causes myiasis in life toads (and certainly not with so many specimens). This was a dead toad, so maybe another species of Lucilia or another calliphorid that can be found on cadavers. And your Mintho is placed in the gallery.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 16-05-2006 10:02
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Thanks for the nice words Paul  Shar ... thanks for the location information and permission to show your great photo ... but I try to avoid dead frogs usually because parasite flies haven't evolved to kill them ... yet |
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| shar |
Posted on 16-05-2006 16:13
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Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06 |
Dear all, The toad was not dead. He was still moving arround. I will see if I can find the other picture I once saw on this subject. |
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| shar |
Posted on 16-05-2006 21:20
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Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06 |
Dear Paul, You are probably right, I am no expert. I only know the toad was still alive and the pictures on www.batraciens-reptiles.com/lucilia_bufonivora.htm made me wonder if the toad I saw was also infected by lucila bufonivora. Someone of the UVA looked at the picture and he considered it aswell. He learned at a congres that the fly lays his eggs on the sides of a toad and that the maggots crawl to the nostrils of the toad. But he wasn't certain. regards, Shar |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 16-05-2006 21:51
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
The number of eggs was far too big for bufinovora, I think.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| shar |
Posted on 21-05-2006 15:27
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Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06 |
Today I saw the Mintho rufiventris again. I quess he lives in our garden Although, it was dark and rainy outside I took some pictures. gr, Shar shar attached the following image:  [81.64Kb] |
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| shar |
Posted on 21-05-2006 15:28
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Member Location: Posts: 197 Joined: 15.05.06 |
And one more
shar attached the following image:  [100.56Kb] |
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