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Index of Subjects Hi Angus, Very nice photos, as usual. I'm not good at general fly IDs and rely on BugGuide.net, but can recognize a few, and agree with some of your IDs -- you are good at syrphids. Some suggested revisions: --#3 is definitely not a wood gnat (Anisopodidae), it's a rhagionid, Rhagio mystaceus, like #9 (this one is a certainly a male -- eyes meet at the top of the head -- not in females). --#11, 'Machimus', agreed, it is a small robber fly, but is the common Dioctria hyalopennis, a female by the shape of the abdomen, though that's out of the plane of focus. Bev Wigney had a great pic of one on her site, Magiccanoe or some similar name. --'Lucilia a blowfly', appears to be a blowfly, but more likely is a Calliphora species, male. It appears in your series twice, at 8789077462 & 8617225129. --Fruit fly unknown (small pic, 8785130892) looks like another, smaller common rhagionid, Rhagio gracilis; the abdominal shape says this is a male. Seems too orange-tinted though in this pic, always pale pale yellow in my experience. --Lucilia halteres (white bits) are not the halteres (all flies have those but not visible here), but are a small accessory wing lobe or calypter, present in 'calyptrate' flies. -- I stopped looking soon after this, but a rather dishevelled looking ichneumon further on looks more like a mayfly. The right arrow does show up on Firefox/Mac in my case, but I wish Flickr had an accessible thumbnail page view so that you could skip around easily. I think maybe it still does have but I didn't sign in to check this. Steve, Halifax Quoting Angus MacLean <cold_mac@hotmail.com>: I've just noted that the right hand arrow does not show up for those wishing to view the next image. Just use the right arrow on the keyboard. (there are lots of complaints about the changes in Flickr but no one mentioned this one?). > > There are a number of fly experts on this listserver so I would > appreciate your input. (It's awkward to have incorrectly identified > creatures on one's site). > > Thanks, Angus > > - - -- -- - - - - -- - - -- -- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - > I have posted about 35 photos of flies to my Flickr site. They > include many types of flies. (For those that expressed concern there > are no photos of spiders!!). They can be viewed at: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/58321572@N00/8828901560/ > > As a whole, Flickr sites have been extensively revised. The means of > moving to the next image is now similar to other photo sites.
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