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06-10-2008, 07:33 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: South Northants
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| | | Unidentified fly - fat with bright yellow abdomen
Stony Stratford, Bucks.
Help with identification much appreciated. 
Bruce  |
06-10-2008, 07:54 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: knowle, solihull (just south of b'ham)
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| | | Re: Unidentified fly - fat with bright yellow abdomen
musca or sarcophaga sp.? i'd fairly confidently say its gravid.
apart from that idea i'm stumped 
as always, fantastic up close photo bruce!  |
06-10-2008, 09:00 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified fly - fat with bright yellow abdomen
Thanks for your help with id and kind comments squishy.
Bruce |
06-10-2008, 09:23 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified fly - fat with bright yellow abdomen
It is Phaonia subventa a member of the Muscidae family. |
07-10-2008, 11:48 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: knowle, solihull (just south of b'ham)
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| | | Re: Unidentified fly - fat with bright yellow abdomen
woo, i got the family!  lol, its not that often i get these kinds of things right  especially with flies, which i usually cant tell apart at all (i was fairly confident this time though )
it is gravid isn't it dogghound?
BTW bruce, i've never seen any macro close-ups to rival yours , always a perfect angle, always perfect focus, always perfectly sharp, how on earth do you do it?
Last edited by squishy; 07-10-2008 at 11:51 AM.
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07-10-2008, 07:29 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: South Northants
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| | | Re: Unidentified fly - fat with bright yellow abdomen
I really appreciate your kind and encouraging words squishy . However I think you give me too much credit - there are quite a number of WAB members who consistently post excellent macro and close-up work - a big thanks anyway .
Bruce |
07-10-2008, 08:08 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified fly - fat with bright yellow abdomen
Quote:
Originally Posted by squishy  it is gravid isn't it dogghound?
| It appears so, the abdomen is enlarged at the bottom. And its a female which helps |
08-10-2008, 03:06 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified fly - fat with bright yellow abdomen
lol, i'd definitely be on the wrong track if it was a male 
i think you should maybe join an entemologists society, so you can get your photos published bruce, it's always a shame when you have these fantastic shots and have nothing to do with them (except let all of us WABers go 'ooh aah' at them ) | | |
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