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Overloaded passenger fly ?
LordV
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Posted on 11-10-2006 07:07
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Tiny fly about 1.7mm bodylength taxiing for take off near one of my compost heaps. Assume the mites are passengers rather than parasites?
Any ideas on the fly- lot of them around on the compost heap at the moment?
Thanks
Brian V.

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Nikita Vikhrev
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Hi Brian.
If you have no wings, how to travel from one compost heap to another? This mites took ticket on right flight, Sphaeroceridae-Airlines is a good heap-to-heap charter.
Nikita
Edited by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-10-2006 07:45
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Pfft Grin
Thanks Nikita
Brian V.
 
Dmitry Gavryushin
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Nice capture! I think this might be a Chaetopodella scutellaris.
 
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