Sunday
Nov262017
Tachinid Fly
Sun 2017-11-26 
A male Linnaemya picta (Diptera: Tachinidae).
Specimen taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK on 2017-08-12.
Entries from November 1, 2017 - November 30, 2017
Sun 2017-11-26 Friday
Nov242017
Blowfly
Fri 2017-11-24 
A female Stomorhina lunata (Diptera:Calliphoridae). In Africa these flies are important predators of swarming locusts so you might think that in UK they do the same to grasshoppers but, apparently, there is no evidence for this. Instead they are regarded as vagrants.
Specimen collected in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK on 2017-11-19.
