Posted by Juergen Peters on 27-08-2006 01:49
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Hello!
At the moment there are many flies and other insects on the Aconitum plants in our garden (Ostwestfalen/Germany). To be more precise: they all seem to like the secretions of Aphids on the plants. Very numerous are Sepsids and Lonchaeids, but also these beautiful metallic 4 mm flies. I found some pictures of Physiphora alcae (Ulidiidae) which resemble it. Is this correct or are there similar species? Is that black tube on pic 4 an ovipositor? Thanks a lot!
