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18-10-2010, 02:07 PM
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| | | Cluster Fly with Fungus
Found a Cluster Fly with a fungal growth near my back door, so i can keep an eye on its progress  ...  |
19-10-2010, 01:08 AM
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| | | Re: Cluster Fly with Fungus
Hi Gordon,
It looks like Calliphora vicina. I found a C. vomitoria with fungus below it like that, but it wasn't going around the body. The following day there was only a shell of the bottom part of the abdomen so something might have eaten it!
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19-10-2010, 08:56 PM
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| | | Re: Cluster Fly with Fungus
Did yours show the typical behaviour of climbing as high as it could before dropping dead ? ... |
19-10-2010, 09:01 PM
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| | | Re: Cluster Fly with Fungus
No it didn't, in fact it didn't look like the same type of fungus you usually see on any of the flies. This was just fine strands attaching the underneath to a leaf, the fly was under the edge of a leaf. The bottom section is still there, I had taken a pic of it but I think I deleted that one. I have a pic of the whole fly though, and I think a pic of it from the previous day when I thought it was just resting. I'll dig them up and post them.
Yours doesn't look to have the typical fungus either, has it gone around the body?
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19-10-2010, 09:15 PM
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| | | Re: Cluster Fly with Fungus
Pics from the 7th, 8th & 9th October.
The one from the 8th where it's feeding on an Ivy flower with some sort of white stuff on it might have sealed it's fate! I'm not sure what the white stuff is, it doesn't really look like a spider's web but it could be, maybe some spores were on that!   
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19-10-2010, 09:27 PM
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| | | Re: Cluster Fly with Fungus
Its been raining most of the day here, so i haven't checked its progress today, tomorrow i`ll take another pic.
The fungus looks similar to your`s, well your fly  , its just on the underside ... | | |
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