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Jun202010

Another Picture-Winged Fly

DateSun 2010-06-20

A picture-winged fly similar but not identical to the one I saw a few days earlier.  This one is probably Urophora jaceana (Diptera: Tephritidae), based on information from here.  The plant that it was on appears to be knapweed (Centaurea nigra), the plant that U. jaceana lays its eggs on.

Photos taken in The Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-06-15.

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