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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones)
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fly with a strange attachment
Copyright © 2009 Lynn Bergen

fly with a strange attachment
Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, New York, USA
June 9, 2009
I don't have a guess as to what this might be attached to the fly.
The fly was not seeming to be bothered by it.
Found on a Parsnip leaf.

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Contributed by Lynn Bergen on 9 June, 2009 - 8:01pm
Last updated 25 October, 2009 - 11:18pm

Pseudoscorpion
A pseudoscorpion is taking a ride on the fly, a practice known a phoresy. Very cool find! Pseudoscorpions are related to scorpions, but they're a different group and have no stingers or poison.
… Ben Van Allen, 9 June, 2009 - 9:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Pseudoscorpion
Thanks, Ben, for the ID and information.
I didn't know that we have them in New York.
… Lynn Bergen, 9 June, 2009 - 9:14pm login or register to post comments

 
pseudoscorpions abound up to the timberline north
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… v belov, 9 June, 2009 - 9:25pm login or register to post comments

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