Thread subject: Diptera.info :: fly2
Posted by
lema on 05-07-2006 21:24
#1
and now (I hope) a picture of tachinid searching for caterpillar
Posted by
ChrisR on 05-07-2006 21:26
#2
It certainly looks like a tachinid - but not enough detail to know which one it could be

Posted by
lema on 05-07-2006 21:26
#3
and now a picture of tachinid finding caterpillar
Posted by
lema on 05-07-2006 21:28
#4
tachinid laying eggs on swallowtail caterpillar
Posted by
ChrisR on 05-07-2006 21:31
#5
wow - amazing photo!

#6
WOW! Great photo! IN precise moment, in precise local, with the right guy.

))) These photo is amazing!
To me is Tachinid too.
Posted by
lema on 05-07-2006 22:40
#7
another picture of the same fly
#8
This looks a bit like Exorista grandis, a known parasite of the swallowtail. What do you think, Chris?
Tony
Posted by
ChrisR on 06-07-2006 00:36
#9
Wouldn't like to commit myself really

It looks a bit like an
Exorista but I'd have expected it to be a bit bigger ... but then it is hard to get a feel for scale.
Posted by
lema on 06-07-2006 06:37
#10
Size about the size of the House fly (
Musca domestica) (~8mm)
lema