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| billsbirding |
Posted on 22-04-2013 22:37
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Member Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 14 Joined: 16.04.13 |
Any help would be appreciated, although I understand if it's not possible to ID some of them based on just a photo. Possible Eristalis species? billsbirding attached the following image:  [174.4Kb] Edited by billsbirding on 22-04-2013 22:39 |
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| billsbirding |
Posted on 22-04-2013 22:41
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Member Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 14 Joined: 16.04.13 |
And another...
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| billsbirding |
Posted on 22-04-2013 22:43
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Member Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 14 Joined: 16.04.13 |
Possible Eupeodes luniger?
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| billsbirding |
Posted on 22-04-2013 22:47
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Member Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 14 Joined: 16.04.13 |
Last one! Could this be Cheilosia vernalis, or am I being a bit optimistic hoping for an ID to species level.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-04-2013 23:36
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Welcome to the forum Bill ... just a small tip though - it helps if you post each species in a different thread. Mixed threads can be confusing to follow and difficult to search for 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| billsbirding |
Posted on 23-04-2013 00:14
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Member Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 14 Joined: 16.04.13 |
ChrisR wrote: Welcome to the forum Bill ... just a small tip though - it helps if you post each species in a different thread. Mixed threads can be confusing to follow and difficult to search for Apologies, Chris. I guess I'm just used to uploading photos in bulk to one post; thought it would be silly to clog up the forum with four different threads, but I'll take note for next time
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| jeremyr |
Posted on 23-04-2013 07:47
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 Member Location: Tottenham Posts: 577 Joined: 18.05.12 |
Hi Bill, the first two flies are definitely Eristalis as you can see the dipped vein. Pale front tarsi mark both out as E. pertinax, the second fly looks like a hairy spring-brood specimen. E. luniger looks probable but from this picture it's difficult to be certain, and I don't think there are that many Cheilosia that can be readily identified from a picture Jeremy Edited by jeremyr on 23-04-2013 07:49 |
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| Fred Fly |
Posted on 23-04-2013 07:49
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Member Location: Germany Posts: 392 Joined: 19.07.11 |
1 Eristalis pertinax 2 Eristalis pertinax 3 Eupeodes corollae 4 Platycheirus sp. |
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but don't see the image in the post.