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| crex |
Posted on 01-09-2006 08:10
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 Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
I guess this is one of the boring (=unidentifyable) Pollenia species? From aprox 65 km NW of Stockholm, Sweden 2006-08-31. First two images of a female.
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| crex |
Posted on 01-09-2006 08:11
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Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
Another view of the female.
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| crex |
Posted on 01-09-2006 08:12
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Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
... and the male.
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 01-09-2006 08:24
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9350 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Hi Crex. This season, I have at least dozen of Pollenia sp. on each window of my countryhouse. Unidentified and unpleasant gests... Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 01-09-2006 12:41
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 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Hence their English name of Cluster Fly. They can appear in enormous numbers, and year after year. Often they occur in only one or two rooms of the house, but the same room/s every year. I have been in country houses where every step crunched when you walked across an attic room because you were crushing accumulated deceased Pollenia and Vespula. They are the bane of the house staff in the houses they take a fancy to, and the bodies have to be vacuumed up on a daily basis.
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 01-09-2006 13:30
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Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9350 Joined: 24.05.05 |
1,5 years ago I came on Diptera.info trying to ID Pollenia... http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=348&pid=1267#post_1267 Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| crex |
Posted on 01-09-2006 15:53
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Member Location: Sweden Posts: 1996 Joined: 22.05.06 |
Thank you Susan and Nikita. Is it only Pollenia that has the golden haired thorax, I wonder? |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 01-09-2006 20:06
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7236 Joined: 19.11.04 |
As far as I know, Pollenia is the only European calypterate to have wavy golden hair. There are a few tachinds that have golden hair (thinking of Tachina ursina) but none has wavy hair like Pollenia.
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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