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Which *FLY*, please? - Loxocera cylindrica
Copyright © 2007 Thomas of Baltimore City

Which *FLY*, please? - Loxocera cylindrica
Herring Run Watershed, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
May 26, 2007
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Which Ichneumon (if possible), please? - Loxocera cylindrica Which *FLY*, please? - Loxocera cylindrica Which Ichneumon (if possible), please? - Loxocera cylindrica
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Contributed by Thomas of Baltimore City on 26 May, 2007 - 8:25pm

It is a fly
of Loxocera cylindrica in the family Psilidae. - Chen
… Chen Young, 26 May, 2007 - 9:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Chen!
What is the ecology of this fly? What does it eat?
… Thomas of Baltimore City, 26 May, 2007 - 9:07pm login or register to post comments

 
I checked the reference
on this group of flies and here is the Biology and behavior info from Manual of Nearctic Diptera " Apparently all members of the Psilidae are phytoghagous. A few species are crop pests. The carrot rust fly, Psila rosae, is a well-known pst of several umbellifers and other plants; other psilids affect a wide variety of plants, usually feeding as larvae in stems and roots.'

As for what the adult in your images was feeding, I could not see it well enough to tell. - Chen
… Chen Young, 29 May, 2007 - 9:10am login or register to post comments

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