Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unknown fly

Posted by jezlee on 20-06-2007 19:34
#1
Can anyone help me with this one, seen by a stream on various foliage - brambles, nettles, umbellifers, grasses - in Staffordshire, UK.

Posted by Tony Irwin on 20-06-2007 19:58
#2
Chrysopilus cristatus male (Rhagionidae)

Posted by jezlee on 20-06-2007 22:42
#3
Tony Irwin wrote:
Chrysopilus cristatus male (Rhagionidae)


Hi Tony, many thanks for the speedy ID - I'm glad you could tell at all from this rather poor photograph!

Jez

Posted by Tony Irwin on 20-06-2007 23:20
#4
Hey - the photo's OK! ... and this is one of the most conspicuous waterside flies at this time of yearWink

Posted by jezlee on 21-06-2007 09:43
#5
Tony Irwin wrote:
Hey - the photo's OK! ... and this is one of the most conspicuous waterside flies at this time of yearWink


Yes, they were all over the vegetation where I was walking yesterday! Thanks again, Tony.