Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Athericidae likes my car. :)
#1
Hi
I have found one athericid in the same spot where I saw the Cephalodromia (check the second photo of the habitat in this thread:
http://diptera.in...d_id=23643) but the athericid escaped. Then I went in the direction of the Nave de Santo António... and stopped near a waterfall. This
Ibisia sp. approached to the my blue car Peugeot (when I was trying to attract tabanids - didn't see none.)... and it was a piece of cake to spot this beauty again! This "tell" us that the water around is in very good condition!
But so far I didn't the Blephariceridae - another fly very sensible to pollution.. and present in Serra da Estrela:
http://diptera.in...d_id=14825 )
#2
It looks as if its feeding attempts left some nice scratches in the car.
#3
it is a scratch feeder.
look what happened after the feeding ---- >
#4
Paul Beuk wrote:
It looks as if its feeding attempts left some nice scratches in the car.
I think you will find these come as a Non-Optional Extra with Peugeot cars.
I see you have a car almost the same colour as my Ford Focus Jorge....we should have got Silver-Grey like LordV, he used to send in loads of photo's of things on his car, much easier to get proper exposure with camera. I put in a photo of a Hybotidae
Hilara sp sitting on my car a short time ago, couldn't get proper exposure on my camera due to the Blue background
.
EDIT; How Sad is that...Jorge has Photoshopped the scratches off his car in SECOND PHOTO !!!!!!!!!!!
#5
"I think you will find these come as a Non-Optional Extra with Peugeot cars. Grin"
yeah! But I managed to expose this properly. It is not a task easy, though.
Next time I will buy an electrical car... I took a note: buy a grey car.
discard the red and imagine a more greyish car.
lol
#6
Hmm, our blue Peugeot has not yielded any scratching Athericidae so far. Is that option only implemented in the Mediterranean, perhaps?
#7
That Red Car looks like a Hairdressers Car.
..Your not a Hairdresser are you Jorge?
#8
Portugal has, at least, over 10 rivers completely unpolluted. You can drink that water safely! Some examples: Rio Zêzere - from Serra da Estrela, the river in the Montesinho Mountain; Rio Sabor and so on. Without very good waters, athericids don't appear simply.
#9
Roger Thomason wrote:
That Red Car looks like a Hairdressers Car.
..Your not a Hairdresser are you Jorge?
it seems you would like to have a car like this to cut your hair.
#10
Paul Beuk wrote:
Hmm, our blue Peugeot has not yielded any scratching Athericidae so far. Is that option only implemented in the Mediterranean, perhaps?
just take a sandpaper and scratch the capot of your Peugeot.
Then athericids will appear. 100% guaranteed.
#11
jorgemotalmeida wrote:
Roger Thomason wrote:
That Red Car looks like a Hairdressers Car.
..Your not a Hairdresser are you Jorge?
it seems you would like to have a car like this to cut your hair.
I have an annual haircut (whether I need it or not, done by She Who Must Be Obeyed). If a Hairdresser depended on me for making a living, he would be lucky to be a Pedestrian.
#12
lol
so, you have a female hairdresser! I have one too. Good taste!
#13
Who said my She Who Must Be Obeyed was a FEMALE.......
Just Kidding
....HONEST !!!!
#14
LOL
#15
jorgemotalmeida wrote:
LOL
I don't think She Who Must Be Obeyed would think so.....luckily she is at work at the moment.
I am on three weeks break......nice and sunny, but too windy for photography, hence a day for El Supremo of The Waffling Garbage Club to get in a bit of practise....
.
#16
go ahead, Roger!!! No one fly will escape from you!
#17
No use since I had a haircut last week...Lost 200mm. now no flies get trapped
. Now I wear a HAT, they just bounce off
.