Thread subject: Diptera.info :: can anyone identify?

Posted by hermanr on 18-05-2005 20:59
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Thanks, Paul. I should have looked better on the other sites with photographs that I visited!

I read somewhere that male Empididae capture a prey and offer it to a female they want to mate with. Is this what I see in the second picture? In any case, it doesn't look like mating to me, but then again I'm a real beginner in this field. (Identifying insects, that is.)