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 Sciarid-Death Sequence
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 01-01-2009 12:27
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5248 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Photographed in my kitchen on New Years Eve. Strange ritual this little Sciarid (<2mm) went through. Pic.1 Walking/staggering around, laying on its back and flexing its Abdomen and oozing yellow fluid. Anyone ID this fly to genus, Bradysia? Roger Thomason attached the following image:  [124.46Kb] Edited by Roger Thomason on 02-01-2009 01:47 |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 01-01-2009 12:28
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5248 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Pic.2 Put its head on worktop and spun around like a break-dancer. Roger Thomason attached the following image:  [92.78Kb] |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 01-01-2009 12:31
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5248 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Pic.3 Walked/Staggered around again, lay on its back again flexing Abdmen again still oozing yellow fluid and died.  Happy New Year from Shetland. 
Roger Thomason attached the following image:  [131.38Kb] Edited by Roger Thomason on 01-01-2009 13:02 |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 01-01-2009 13:06
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5248 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Pic.4 Better photo for ID purposes. Roger Thomason attached the following image:  [158.28Kb] |
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but don't see the image in the post.