Posted by Juergen Peters on 11-12-2025 19:58
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Hello Eric,
eklans wrote:
It's Polietes domitor, the one I never saw!
look in spring for flies sunbathing on leaves at forest edges. Mainly males are very numerous then. They seem to defend their own small areas.
The much bigger
Polietes lardarius I mostly find in late autumn (October/November) sunbathing on tree trunks.