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August 8-10, 2008
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Family Sarcophagidae - Flesh Flies

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Oestroidea
Family Sarcophagidae (Flesh Flies)
Explanation of Names
Sarcophagidae is named after the genus Sarcophaga, which gets its name from the Greek for "flesh-eater". See that page for details.
Range
Widespread
Food
Adults feed on various sugar-containing materials such as nectar, sap, fruit juices and honeydew.
Most larvae feed on some sort of animal material: many are scavengers, feeding on dead animals; some are parasitoids of other insects.
Internet References
pinned adult images of one or more species in 14 genera (Insects of Cedar Creek, Minnesota)
overview of family and two subfamilies, with some representative genera in each (John Haarstad, Insects of Cedar Creek, Minnesota)
Works Cited
1.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
By Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn
2.A Field Guide to Insects
By Richard E. White, Donald J. Borror, Roger Tory Peterson