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Feb192013

Muscid Fly

DateTue 2013-02-19

A female Thricops diaphanus (Diptera: Muscidae).  The white stuff on its back is probably pollen dropped from the anthers of a flower while the fly was feeding on the flower's nectar.  Flies can be important pollinators of flowers (see here).

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2010-11-06.

AuthorTristram Brelstaff | CommentPost a Comment |
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