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small yellow fly - Aldrichiomyza agromyzina

small yellow fly - Aldrichiomyza agromyzina
Lower Dam, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
June 15, 2020
Size: ~4 mm
I thought at first this might be a bristly fruit fly in the genus Camptoprosopella, but I couldn't find any examples there with a substantial proboscis like this fly appears to have.

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Aldrichiomyza agromyzina
Thanks so much for identifying this little yellow fly as Aldrichiomyza agromyzina, John! I never would have guessed it is a freeloader fly.

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