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Showing posts with label #diptera. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Sunny Flies


Might have been frost on the ground but the woods towards St Bridget's kirk still had some sunny spots to offer to a host of flies. St Bridget's kirk did too but there were too many people around and I ran out of pots!

A sweep onf one tree netted half a dozen Polietes - I had only seen two before I swished the net. Also from a sunny trunk was a single Phaonia subventa. Calliphora vicina was the main fly on the kirk walls, though some smaller fare was also present.

Polietes lardarius - from one sweep!
Phanoia subventa female