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macro junkie

21-04-2008, 08:08 AM
do any of u guys know the correct id for this fruit fly?





AndyK

21-04-2008, 09:52 AM
It looks like one of the Picture Wing flies to me (family Tephritidae), not sure which one as there is quite a few. They normally sit around waving there wings about.

macro junkie

21-04-2008, 10:30 AM

AndyK Wrote:
It looks like one of the Picture Wing flies to me (family Tephritidae), not sure which one as there is quite a few. They normally sit around waving there wings about.


thanks andy//i been told at wild about britain it could be Euleia heracleii, in the family Tephritidae..

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