Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly in flight

Posted by Toby on 15-04-2007 23:13
#1
managed to catch this one hovering at about 1 metre today - I presume its flight pattern is a key to its ID?

www.pbase.com/racketman/image/77206162.jpg
Edited by Toby on 15-04-2007 23:14

Posted by Xespok on 16-04-2007 06:59
#2
I think an Anthomyiid male looking for a partner, with a smaller chance of this belonging to another Calyptrate family. I doubt anyone will hazard an identification based on this pic, but maybe the others will refute me. The main message is that not only hoverflies hover...

Posted by Kahis on 16-04-2007 08:10
#3
? Thricops (Muscidae) ?