Interested to know the identity of this fly found on a birch tree in the scottish highlands last July. Would also be interested in peoples opinions as to 'what happened to the wings?'
Thanks
Jane Bowman
1. It is a bluebottle (Calliphora - Calliphoridae)
2. I'd say it has been eaten by a predator - perhaps a dragonfly. Something has chewed though the abdomen and empied it.
Looking at the neat narrow white border on the calypters, and being in an upland location, it seems to me that there is a good chance this is not C vicina, but one of the other Calliphora spp.