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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Sciomyzoidea » Thick-headed Flies (Conopidae) » Myopinae » Myopa
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Mating Flies - Myopa - male - female
Copyright © 2015 Tim Turner

Mating Flies - Myopa - Male Female
Beavercreek, Greene County, Ohio, USA
May 4, 2015
Possibly Myopinae?

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Contributed by Tim Turner on 7 May, 2015 - 10:37pm
Last updated 17 May, 2015 - 7:59am

Moved
Moved from Myopinae.
… John S. Ascher, 17 May, 2015 - 7:59am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
for the ID, John.
… Tim Turner, 17 May, 2015 - 10:21am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 8 May, 2015 - 5:07am login or register to post comments

Yes - Myopa…
See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 7 May, 2015 - 10:42pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
for the ID, Ross. I photographed this pair under an Aronia melanocarpa (Black Chokeberry) in full flower, which was being visited by many Andrena sp bees (which were also mating, with a particularly violent closing by the males, crashing into females which were visiting flowers and tumbling with them to the ground, which is how I found this pair, searching for a pair of bees which had fallen), so I suppose this mating is bad news for the bees.
… Tim Turner, 8 May, 2015 - 11:08am login or register to post comments

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