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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Bacchini » Platycheirus
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Fly or bee? - Platycheirus - female
Copyright © 2006 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Fly or bee? - Platycheirus - Female
Jim Thorpe, PA, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 17, 2006
Size: 1/3 inch maybe
I'm thinking fly...
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 28 December, 2006 - 1:10am
Last updated 10 March, 2008 - 3:36pm

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 10 May, 2007 - 9:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… john and jane balaban, 28 January, 2007 - 6:20pm login or register to post comments

It is hard to tell from the p
It is hard to tell from the picture, but my first guess would be a female Platycheirus or maybe a Cheilosia... I would go with the Platycheirus...
… Martin Hauser, 28 December, 2006 - 11:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank-you! ^_^
Thank-you! ^_^
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 29 December, 2006 - 1:04pm login or register to post comments

yes, fly
Syrphidae, maybe Toxomerus
… Keith Bayless, 28 December, 2006 - 1:42am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks ^__^ I looked here b
Thanks ^__^ I looked here but didn't find one like this. It had no pattern on it at all. just that metallic colour.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 28 December, 2006 - 12:58pm login or register to post comments

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