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Vinegar Fly - Drosophila - female
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Luk

Vinegar Fly - Drosophila - Female
Richmond Hill, York Region, Ontario, Canada
July 19, 2007
Sorry for the blurriness. A gravid female, she sat on the same spot on the leaf and did not move the whole time I spent shooting other insects on the same group of plants. Not sure if an ID is possible from this ... but it sure looks like one of those laboratory fruit flies.
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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 23 July, 2007 - 5:03pm

Ugh!
These are so annoying in the kitchen__we don't even have vinegar!!
… Alien, 26 September, 2007 - 2:19pm login or register to post comments

Drosophila, seconded
But I've been wrong on these so often that I should quietly retire to lick my wounds. See here, Stephen: http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/diptera/Fruit%20fly.htm
… Ron Hemberger, 24 July, 2007 - 10:18am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Ron
Not surprisingly, Drosophila are quite a tough group actually. I initially hesitated at melanogaster because the abdominal tergites looked differently patterned. So I stuck with "laboratory fruit flies", since I recall that they do use species other than melanogaster :-)
… Stephen Luk, 24 July, 2007 - 10:38am login or register to post comments

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