Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Annoying little Muscids (11.05.17) --> Hydrotaea sp.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 12-05-2017 17:34
#1

Hello,

hundreds of these small (5 mm) flies were torturing me yesterday nearly everywhere in and at the forest (northwest Germany). Hydrotaea?

Edited by Juergen Peters on 12-05-2017 19:59

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 12-05-2017 19:43
#2

Yes, a typical behaviour of sweat sucking Hydrotaea in forests !

Posted by Juergen Peters on 12-05-2017 19:59
#3

Hello, Stéphane!

Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Yes, a typical behaviour of sweat sucking Hydrotaea in forests !


Thanks! I had already experienced this, but with Musca autumnalis.