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Small brown flying insect
Copyright © 2007 Steven Price

Small brown flying insect
Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
January 6, 2007
Size: about 0.25 inches
Contributed by Steven Price on 7 January, 2007 - 9:21am
Last updated 28 January, 2007 - 8:40pm

January 6?
Did you find it in a green house? They are usually not around outdoors in the dead of winter. Will you please comment or change the date if it happens to be incorrect?
… Beatriz Moisset, 7 October, 2011 - 7:05pm

Moved
Moved from Nematocera.
… Omar Fahmy, 28 January, 2007 - 8:40pm

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… john and jane balaban, 28 January, 2007 - 5:54pm

Fungus gnat.
This is a fungus gnat (family Mycetophilidae). The long spurs at the tip of each tibia exclude everything else.
… Eric R. Eaton, 9 January, 2007 - 2:56pm

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