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Cephenemyia phobifer
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Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City
Bombus-mimic Fly [=Cephenemyia? phobifer??] ID Request -
Cephenemyia phobifer
Herring Run Watershed, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
June 2, 2015
If my ID guess is correct, what a life-cycle these have!
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Contributed by
Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City
on 3 June, 2016 - 4:30pm
Last updated 7 June, 2016 - 3:14pm
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Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City
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In a pers. comm.:
with Warren Steiner of the Smithsonian Institution Department of Entomology, he said, "This one for sure looks like the Ceph to me. None of the Bombus-mimic syrphids are quite like this. Good pic, and possibly the 3rd MD record."
[See also:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277300561_First_Records_of_the_Deer_Nasal_Bot_Fly_Cephenemyia_phobifer_Clark_Diptera_Oestridae_in_Maryland
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Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City
, 7 June, 2016 - 3:14pm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_botfly
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Bill Dean
, 4 June, 2016 - 7:28am
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