A few flies for approx labelling, if poss, pls

Dillybythesea · #1 (**permalink**) 19-09-2011, 05:32 PM

It'd be really good if I could label these in some way, say with a genus, or just family would be a help?!

This, which climbed over the flowers rather than flew, gangly black legs...

This which I see most days in the hedge, very bright...

And this, with a red bit between the antennae, and serrated edges to the wings...

Any help would be great.

pammosley · #2 (**permalink**) 19-09-2011, 06:47 PM

Hi Dilly, I think the first is a type of Flesh Fly

Dillybythesea · #3 (**permalink**) 19-09-2011, 07:26 PM

Thanks Pam! So far, all I've got in my notes about flesh-eating flies is about the larger, Sarcophaga ones that you can't distinguish - S. carnaria, S. variegata or S. subvicina... so that would make this a much smaller member of Sarcophagide... interesting!

pammosley · #4 (**permalink**) 19-09-2011, 07:31 PM

I may be wrong, I`d wait for someone who knows what they are talking about

Jason Green · #5 (**permalink**) 19-09-2011, 09:02 PM

First is Sarcophagidae - Sarcophaga sp., need the male genitalia area. Then, two female Anthomyiids - a female Anthomyia sp., and a photographically-indeterminable one.

Dillybythesea · #6 (**permalink**) 19-09-2011, 09:06 PM

Well Geoff F, eg, has been online answering qus about flies, which probably means there's not enough detail in my pics, or too many trillion possibilities!

Thank you for offering input, regardless!