Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Athericidae likes my car. :)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 03-08-2009 18:44
#1
Hi
I have found one athericid in the same spot where I saw the Cephalodromia (check the second photo of the habitat in this thread:
http://diptera.in...d_id=23643) but the athericid escaped. Then I went in the direction of the Nave de Santo António... and stopped near a waterfall. This
Ibisia sp. approached to the my blue car Peugeot (when I was trying to attract tabanids - didn't see none.)... and it was a piece of cake to spot this beauty again! This "tell" us that the water around is in very good condition! :) But so far I didn't the Blephariceridae - another fly very sensible to pollution.. and present in Serra da Estrela:
http://diptera.in...d_id=14825 )
Posted by Paul Beuk on 05-08-2009 08:40
#2
It looks as if its feeding attempts left some nice scratches in the car. :D
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 05-08-2009 11:49
#3
it is a scratch feeder. :D
look what happened after the feeding ---- >
:D
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 05-08-2009 11:50
Posted by Roger Thomason on 05-08-2009 11:50
#4
Paul Beuk wrote:
It looks as if its feeding attempts left some nice scratches in the car. :D
I think you will find these come as a Non-Optional Extra with Peugeot cars. :D
I see you have a car almost the same colour as my Ford Focus Jorge....we should have got Silver-Grey like LordV, he used to send in loads of photo's of things on his car, much easier to get proper exposure with camera. I put in a photo of a Hybotidae
Hilara sp sitting on my car a short time ago, couldn't get proper exposure on my camera due to the Blue background :|.
EDIT; How Sad is that...Jorge has Photoshopped the scratches off his car in SECOND PHOTO !!!!!!!!!!!:D:D
Edited by Roger Thomason on 05-08-2009 11:56
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 05-08-2009 11:53
#5
"I think you will find these come as a Non-Optional Extra with Peugeot cars. Grin"
:D
yeah! But I managed to expose this properly. It is not a task easy, though.
Next time I will buy an electrical car... I took a note: buy a grey car. :D
discard the red and imagine a more greyish car. :D lol
Posted by Paul Beuk on 05-08-2009 12:11
#6
Hmm, our blue Peugeot has not yielded any scratching Athericidae so far. Is that option only implemented in the Mediterranean, perhaps?
Posted by Roger Thomason on 05-08-2009 12:12
#7
That Red Car looks like a Hairdressers Car.:|..Your not a Hairdresser are you Jorge? :D
Edited by Roger Thomason on 05-08-2009 12:13
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 05-08-2009 12:30
#8
Portugal has, at least, over 10 rivers completely unpolluted. You can drink that water safely! Some examples: Rio Zêzere - from Serra da Estrela, the river in the Montesinho Mountain; Rio Sabor and so on. Without very good waters, athericids don't appear simply. :)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 05-08-2009 12:33
#9
Roger Thomason wrote:
That Red Car looks like a Hairdressers Car.:|..Your not a Hairdresser are you Jorge? :D
it seems you would like to have a car like this to cut your hair. :P
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 05-08-2009 12:35
#10
Paul Beuk wrote:
Hmm, our blue Peugeot has not yielded any scratching Athericidae so far. Is that option only implemented in the Mediterranean, perhaps?
just take a sandpaper and scratch the capot of your Peugeot. :D Then athericids will appear. 100% guaranteed. :D
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 05-08-2009 12:48
Posted by Roger Thomason on 05-08-2009 12:44
#11
jorgemotalmeida wrote:
Roger Thomason wrote:
That Red Car looks like a Hairdressers Car.:|..Your not a Hairdresser are you Jorge? :D
it seems you would like to have a car like this to cut your hair. :P
I have an annual haircut (whether I need it or not, done by She Who Must Be Obeyed). If a Hairdresser depended on me for making a living, he would be lucky to be a Pedestrian. :P
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 05-08-2009 12:45
#12
:D lol
so, you have a female hairdresser! I have one too. Good taste! :D
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 05-08-2009 12:46
Posted by Roger Thomason on 05-08-2009 12:49
#13
Who said my She Who Must Be Obeyed was a FEMALE.......:o
Just Kidding :D....HONEST !!!!
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 05-08-2009 13:06
#14
LOL :D
Posted by Roger Thomason on 05-08-2009 13:13
#15
jorgemotalmeida wrote:
LOL :D
I don't think She Who Must Be Obeyed would think so.....luckily she is at work at the moment.
I am on three weeks break......nice and sunny, but too windy for photography, hence a day for El Supremo of The Waffling Garbage Club to get in a bit of practise....;).
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 05-08-2009 13:13
#16
go ahead, Roger!!! No one fly will escape from you! :D
Posted by Roger Thomason on 05-08-2009 13:19
#17
No use since I had a haircut last week...Lost 200mm. now no flies get trapped :D. Now I wear a HAT, they just bounce off :|.