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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Platypezoidea » Flat-footed Flies (Platypezidae) » Platypezinae
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Small Dark Fly
Copyright © 2014 Arthur Scott Macmillan

Small Dark Fly
Felton, Santa Cruz County, California, USA
July 26, 2014
Size: Under 5mm
Henry Cowell Park
I know if I can get anything this small identified it's probably new to me! The second photo shows a curved rear femur(?).

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Contributed by Arthur Scott Macmillan on 12 August, 2014 - 3:02pm
Last updated 21 May, 2016 - 10:16pm

Moved
Moved from Flat-footed Flies.
… John S. Ascher, 21 May, 2016 - 10:16pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Keith Bayless, 5 September, 2014 - 11:03am login or register to post comments

CO 2
Are these the tiny flies that are right in our face? I think I heard they are after the CO 2?
… Scott Peden, 13 August, 2014 - 12:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Unlikely
These flies like fungus. The facehuggers include Amiota and some other Drosophilidae. They like sweat.
… John F. Carr, 13 August, 2014 - 6:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Educational sweat
Thanks again John, we can use the sweat flies as part of our educational offerings. It is a rather common question, what are they after?

Scott
… Scott Peden, 14 August, 2014 - 12:35am login or register to post comments

 
I'll say it this way...
...moments later I felt sure I inhaled an insect. I've heard some insects that pester mammals zero in on CO2. What these flies would be after, I don't know. Sweat maybe?
… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 13 August, 2014 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

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