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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Scuttle Flies (Phoridae) » Metopininae » Ant-decapitating Flies (Apocephalus) » pergandei group (Apocephalus pergandei group) » Apocephalus coquilletti
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fly and ant - Apocephalus coquilletti - female
Copyright © 2011 Matt Edmonds

fly and ant - Apocephalus coquilletti - Female
stone mountain, dekalb County, Georgia, USA
July 15, 2011
Size: 2mm ish
Need help with this fly. She seemed to live in another time frame. She was so fast and smooth that when I first saw the ant I thought there was a spider in a web walking above the ant. I only started to realize it wasn't a spider when she was able to follow the ant wherever it went. Then I could tell the fly was harrassing the ant and the ant was acting really annoyed. In this picture you can see the ant was grooming furriously. So I'm assuming the fly is laying eggs on the ant. When I started watching closely, I could see the ant darting in and out very quickly.

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fly and ant - Apocephalus coquilletti - female fly and ant - Apocephalus coquilletti - female
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Contributed by Matt Edmonds on 23 September, 2011 - 6:30am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Matt Edmonds, 23 September, 2011 - 7:03am login or register to post comments

A phorid perhaps?
http://bugguide.net/node/view/14163
… William Donald Newton, 23 September, 2011 - 6:52am login or register to post comments

 
That's it!!
Thanks!
… Matt Edmonds, 23 September, 2011 - 7:02am login or register to post comments

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