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Muscid - Helina - male

Muscid - Helina - Male
Fullerton Arboretum, Fullerton, Orange County, California, USA
May 22, 2007

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Muscid - Helina - male Muscid - Helina - male

Moved
Moved from Muscoidea.

Moved
Moved from Frass.
If we are going to start frassing unidentified muscoids we should start with the poor images and not the good ones like these ones.

 
A belated, related thanks.
Beatriz, your persistence paid off.

 
Nice!
I am glad that I rescued this. Now this gives me encouragement to submit some of my "unidentifiable" images. I have many of those.

 
This is a good time to post flies.
A lot are receiving IDs, including old posts. Thanks to Norm and =v=!

 
OK; thanks
I've retitled.

Frassed
Moved from Cluster flies. We have enough unidentified muscoids.

Joe's correct
Take a look at the 3rd long vein (media) that reaches the wing tip, it's relatively straight. In Pollenia there is a sharp bend in this vein as here:

 
Thanks, Tony
I waffled on this one. Shouldn't have gone with the dubious hair!

Hey, horseflies here soon, right?

 
Hi Ron:
The Tabanids finally emerged here on 31 May. Been out looking for them every decent day for the past 2 weeks. Had a Tent Trap, black shiny ball, and even chemical attractant, plus me. What were they attracted to, you ask. The tires my truck - go figure!
Your's should be flying by now.

 
Thanks, Tony
Will give it a try in the next couple of days. Have noted a lot of black trucks in the area by local stables and may try the black ball as well. Hopefully, you'll see some posts as a result.

That doesn't look like any Po
That doesn't look like any Pollenia I've ever seen :) This is muscoid

 
Thanks, nice and gentle.
:-)

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