Posted by Juergen Peters on 17-04-2006 21:14
#1
Hello!
Sorry, the pic is not the best, but can this blue fly, seen on 15.04.06 on Tussilago flowers in Ostwestfalen/Germany, be identified to family/genus level? It was only as big as a small house fly (or even smaller).
Thanks in advance!
Edited by Juergen Peters on 18-04-2006 00:50
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 17-04-2006 21:22
#2
Hi Juergen.
It seems to me that your fly and mine (http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=1449) may be the same - blue, small (for Calliphoridae), on Tussilago, at mid-april, with two dusty lines on thorax, with slow curved M1+2.
Nikita
Posted by Juergen Peters on 18-04-2006 00:55
#3
Hello, Nikita!
Nikita Vikhrev wrote:
It seems to me that your fly and mine (http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=1449) may be the same - blue, small (for Calliphoridae), on Tussilago, at mid-april, with two dusty lines on thorax, with slow curved M1+2.
Thanks, you may well be right! Although the occurence on Tussilago could be incidental - there are still not many other flowering plants here on the meadows.