Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Overloaded passenger fly ?

Posted by LordV on 11-10-2006 07:07
#1
Tiny fly about 1.7mm bodylength taxiing for take off near one of my compost heaps. Assume the mites are passengers rather than parasites?
Any ideas on the fly- lot of them around on the compost heap at the moment?
Thanks
Brian V.

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Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-10-2006 07:21
#2
Hi Brian.
If you have no wings, how to travel from one compost heap to another? This mites took ticket on right flight, Sphaeroceridae-Airlines is a good heap-to-heap charter.
Nikita
Edited by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-10-2006 07:45

Posted by LordV on 11-10-2006 07:43
#3
Pfft Grin
Thanks Nikita
Brian V.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 11-10-2006 08:07
#4
Nice capture! I think this might be a Chaetopodella scutellaris.