Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly for ID if poss.

Posted by Toby on 24-04-2007 00:47
#1
this fly was hanging round some larger Bibio types on a clump of nettles. Box Hill Surrey

www.pbase.com/image/77649325.jpg

seems to have a mite on its leg:

www.pbase.com/racketman/image/77649863.jpg
Edited by Toby on 24-04-2007 00:52

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-04-2007 01:00
#2
this is not Bibionidae fly. I would say Sciaridae.

Mite - typical phoresy in diptera. Wink To spread to other locals. very improbable to be some kind of parasitism here.
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 24-04-2007 01:01

Posted by Toby on 24-04-2007 01:04
#3
looks like the Sciaridae in the gallery - bit short of images thereSad

Posted by Paul Beuk on 24-04-2007 08:01
#4
Racketman wrote:
bit short of images thereSad
Sciaridae have the uncanny habit of being neigh impossible to identify from pictures. Hence few images.