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 and now (I hope) a picture of tachinid searching for caterpillar
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 It certainly looks like a tachinid - but not enough detail to know which one it could be Smile
 
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 and now a picture of tachinid finding caterpillar
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 tachinid laying eggs on swallowtail caterpillar
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 wow - amazing photo! Smile
 
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 WOW! Great photo! IN precise moment, in precise local, with the right guy. Smile))) These photo is amazing!
To me is Tachinid too.
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 another picture of the same fly
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 This looks a bit like Exorista grandis, a known parasite of the swallowtail. What do you think, Chris?
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 Wouldn't like to commit myself really Wink It looks a bit like an Exorista but I'd have expected it to be a bit bigger ... but then it is hard to get a feel for scale.
 
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 Size about the size of the House fly (Musca domestica) (~8mm)

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