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Oct242012

Scorpion Fly

DateWed 2012-10-24

A female scorpion fly, a Panorpa sp (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), feeding on dead flies that have presumably been killed and wrapped up by a spider.

Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-08-20.

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