Posted by jane bowman on 13-01-2008 15:41
#1
Interested to know the identity of this fly found on a birch tree in the scottish highlands last July. Would also be interested in peoples opinions as to 'what happened to the wings?'
Thanks
Jane Bowman
Posted by Kahis on 13-01-2008 18:44
#2
1. It is a bluebottle (
Calliphora - Calliphoridae)
2. I'd say it has been eaten by a predator - perhaps a dragonfly. Something has chewed though the abdomen and empied it.
Posted by Susan R Walter on 14-01-2008 13:57
#3
Looking at the neat narrow white border on the calypters, and being in an upland location, it seems to me that there is a good chance this is not
C vicina, but one of the other
Calliphora spp.