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Mystery fly - Archytas
Copyright © 2016 Deb Conrad

Mystery fly - Archytas
Berryton, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA
September 3, 2016
These, about the size of a housefly, are all over the flowering onion chives. I can't identify what they are. They don't seem to be bees, more of a type of fly. Am I right?
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Contributed by Deb Conrad on 3 September, 2016 - 4:02pm
Last updated 3 September, 2016 - 8:01pm

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Moved from Archytas.
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Mystery fly
Thank you! I finally figured out you gave me a one word identifier, archytas, from which I figured out they are pretty good flies, being pollinators.
… Deb Conrad, 3 September, 2016 - 6:43pm login or register to post comments

 
They eat caterpillars
In addition to taking nectar, these flies deposit maggots which wait for a large caterpillar to pass by, grab on, burrow inside, and eat it. They prefer caterpillars in family Noctuidae.
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