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Mallota? - Mallota
Copyright © 2006 john and jane balaban

Mallota? - Mallota
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
July 18, 2006
Size: ~12mm
We're thinking this is a female syrphid fly in the genus Mallota, nectaring on Cicuta maculata. But we don't know the species and it wouldn't surprise us to be wrong on the genus!

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 16 January, 2007 - 8:37pm

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