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Fly female inserting eggs - Dasiops - female

Fly female inserting eggs - Dasiops - Female
Juneau, Alaska, USA
May 19, 2018
Several of these flies were laying eggs into the stem of a Nootka Lupine. Of interest I was also filming a crab spider nearby and it grabbed one of these flies and rejected it.

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Moved from ID Request.

"Most probably Dasiops, which have blade-like ovipositors for piercing plant stems" says Iain MacGowan on diptera.info.

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