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Pollenia id ?
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BubikolRamios |
Posted on 20-03-2011 21:26
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Member Location: Slovenia Posts: 1726 Joined: 14.06.09 |
body ~7 mm
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ChrisR |
Posted on 20-03-2011 21:36
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Pollenia again - you can just see the golden hairs remaining near the scutellum and around the side of the thorax
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
Juergen Peters |
Posted on 20-03-2011 22:40
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Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 13815 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello, Chris! ChrisR wrote: Pollenia again - you can just see the golden hairs remaining near the scutellum and around the side of the thorax I wonder, why I always find Pollenia rather easy to recognize (numerous here at the moment), even if it has lost nearly all of its characteristic golden hairs. Seems to have a very special "general jizz" for me (I wish, this would be the case for many other flies, too...). Edited by Juergen Peters on 20-03-2011 22:44 Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
John Carr |
Posted on 20-03-2011 22:47
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Member Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 10087 Joined: 22.10.10 |
In North America "cluster flies" (Pollenia) overwinter as adults and are one of the most common kinds of fly this time of year.
Edited by John Carr on 20-03-2011 22:47 |
ChrisR |
Posted on 20-03-2011 22:56
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, I was going to say ... Pollenia overwinter in out-buildings and are some of the first flies to emerge from hibernation on warm Spring days. This might also explain why most of them are missing the majority of their golden hairs - they are old flies that emerged last autumn, then they have been sitting in cold, dry places all winter, before being seen in the March sunshine
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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