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| Amadan |
Posted on 07-05-2020 08:22
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Member Location: Posts: 14 Joined: 10.08.17 |
The iSpot post is at https://www.ispotnature.org/communities/uk-and-ireland/view/observation/800196/big-bad-fly David Lester added a genus-level ID of Hybomitra, and suggested posting here. Location: TL 229 844. It was basking in low vegetation on a path bordering the Great Raveley Drain. Amadan attached the following image:  [52.06Kb] Edited by Amadan on 07-05-2020 08:23 |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 07-05-2020 15:44
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18528 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Excellent suggestion and clearly a female of H. bimaculata. Theo |
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| Amadan |
Posted on 09-05-2020 08:53
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Member Location: Posts: 14 Joined: 10.08.17 |
Thank you very much! I have come to the invertebrate world far too late in life - things are harder to take in, worse to actually remember! But when you see as striking a fly as this, it cries out to be photographed and admired. |
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but don't see the image in the post.
