Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly for ID if poss.
Posted by Toby on 24-04-2007 00:47
#1
this fly was hanging round some larger Bibio types on a clump of nettles. Box Hill Surrey
seems to have a mite on its leg:
Edited by Toby on 24-04-2007 00:52
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-04-2007 01:00
#2
this is not Bibionidae fly. I would say Sciaridae.
Mite - typical phoresy in diptera. ;) To spread to other locals. very improbable to be some kind of parasitism here.
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 24-04-2007 01:01
Posted by Toby on 24-04-2007 01:04
#3
looks like the Sciaridae in the gallery - bit short of images there:(
Posted by Paul Beuk on 24-04-2007 08:01
#4
Racketman wrote:
bit short of images there:(
Sciaridae have the uncanny habit of being neigh impossible to identify from pictures. Hence few images.