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 A few flies
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| fleabag |
Posted on 13-07-2006 17:09
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 Member Location: Sussex UK Posts: 183 Joined: 13.07.06 |
Hi, I was hoping someone here might help me find out what some of these are. All found a few days ago down in West Sussex,in a nice spot where a meadow meets woodland and a stream. I've put them up onto a free image hosting site,so i hope the links work ok. http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?y=2006&m=07&img=13-075217L&t=jpg&rand=1854&srv=img2 http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?y=2006&m=07&img=13-075219L&t=jpg&rand=3117&srv=img2 http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?y=2006&m=07&img=13-075221L&t=jpg&rand=6335&srv=img2 http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?y=2006&m=07&img=13-075224L&t=jpg&rand=6712&srv=img2 http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?y=2006&m=07&img=13-075226L&t=jpg&rand=2047&srv=img2 http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?y=2006&m=07&img=13-075229L&t=jpg&rand=2104&srv=img2 http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?y=2006&m=07&img=13-075231L&t=jpg&rand=8808&srv=img2 The first and last ones were about bluebottle sized, The third one was prob only about 5mm at most, The bee looking one was about the length of an average bee. yikes Heres my (very) uneducated guess about a few: One of them looks like it could maybe be a bottle fly?another looks like and behaved like a bee,but i've not been able to find anything similar online?and i suspect that one is maybe a robber fly? Thankyou :-) |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 13-07-2006 17:25
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Hi... just as a courtesy to forum readers could you post each image on a different thread and actually upload the image... it gets very tedious copy/pasting links and the images will remain on this site for the archives, even if you change your photo host  Also, with such a big list of photos it's going to get confusing to link names to photos.  Thanks But to answer your question, I think they are: 1 & 2: Mesembrina meridiana (family Muscidae) - the 'Meridian Fly' (common) 3: family Anthomyidae 4 & 5: Volucella pellucens (family Syrphidae) - a rather nice hoverfly 6: family Asilidae (robber flies) - someone from the asilid group will be able to ID this I think 7: family Callaphoridae (green-bottle)
Edited by ChrisR on 13-07-2006 17:35 |
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| fleabag |
Posted on 13-07-2006 18:00
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Member Location: Sussex UK Posts: 183 Joined: 13.07.06 |
you just cant win sometimes! I actually put them up on that site because i thought that me posting several threads or uploading lots of pics might annoy or use too much space. Oh well...only my first post...I'll know next time. Thankyou for the ID's anyhoo. That hoverfly was very nice looking i agree,wasnt at all camera shy either which was good. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 13-07-2006 18:33
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
it's OK ... we like photos here so keep posting  sorry I couldn't do more with the anthomyid, asilid or callaphorid but they're not really my expertise The Volucellas are all over the place at the moment so look out for other large bee/wasp mimics with only 2 wings. You might like to browse the gallery and look at the various syrphids there too. |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 13-07-2006 19:17
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Hi fleabag, Nice to see your post with good images. For future posts, please read http://www.dipter...eadmore=49.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 13-07-2006 19:43
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
Number 3 belongs to genus Anthomyia and it is probably A. pluvialis.
Kahis |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 13-07-2006 19:57
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7327 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Hi fleabag Just had a look at the asilid. It appears to be a male Machimus, either cingulatus or atricapillus. Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| fleabag |
Posted on 16-07-2006 21:46
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Member Location: Sussex UK Posts: 183 Joined: 13.07.06 |
Many thanks for the help. Hoping to find a few more soon. I really enjoyed the robber flies,something quite satisfying about photographing them too,with all those interesting lumpy,hairy bits and segments. A problem i often have when photographing insects with my point and shoot camera's macro function,is the auto focus sometimes misses by miles,i can use manual focus but it takes a while longer,not always ideal with moving subjects.I wonder why it happens. regards. |
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