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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sciomyzoidea » Black Scavenger Flies (Sepsidae) » Sepsis
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Tiny fly with water droplet - Sepsis
Copyright © 2009 John Wall

Tiny fly with water droplet - Sepsis
North side of Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County, California, USA
September 27, 2009
Anybody take a stab at this one? It's on a sedge leaf next to a small pond in a forest.
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Contributed by John Wall on 28 September, 2009 - 9:20pm
Last updated 2 October, 2014 - 5:56am

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Sepsidae
Family Sepsidae, "bubbling"(1)
… John F. Carr, 28 September, 2009 - 9:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Interesting thread on the bubbling phenomenon. I'd wondered if the fly had sucked the moisture out of the nearby sedge stalk it was on before flying to the leaf, and was in the process of drinking it. Next time I see it I'll try to spend more time observing.
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