Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Oestrus ovis?

Posted by sd on 03-07-2008 22:15
#1
Would be pleased to have id confirmed. It was well camouflaged on the brick wall of our house!

size: approx 10mm
2nd July 2008
Location- Suffolk, UK

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 03-07-2008 23:54
#2
i love this family. So unusual flies. Oestridae. Smile
I think they were much more common than nowadays. Actually they are rarely seen. At least, I never saw one. Sad And I was near horses, sheeps, and other mammals... awkward

Posted by ChrisR on 04-07-2008 11:44
#3
I don't have the key handy but iooks very similar to the specimen I caught in a Malaise trap a few years ago in south Oxon Smile

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 04-07-2008 19:33
#4
Fascinating fly.