Posted by Jan HC Velterop on 23-10-2009 18:09
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Zeegers wrote:
Well, pic 1 is a female Sarcophaga, so very difficult to tell the species (if possible at all).
Size is not of real importance, although anything < 7 mm. is bound to be NOT carnaria.
Theo Zeegers
I agree with Theo, that the smallest S. variegata or S. carnaria catched by me in nature is only 7 mm long. But I have raised once a group of nearly 20 on 1 earthworm. They finished the whole within good 2 hours. Being afraid for starvation they pupated and came to life again as 5-mm-flies, smaller than I have ever seen. Jan H.C.Velterop.