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Laphria grossa
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Copyright © 2009
Cameron D. Peebles
Laphria grossa - Robber Fly - Jackson County, MO -
Laphria grossa
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North of Blue Springs, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
July 25, 2009
Size: Large, maybe 1.5 inches?
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Contributed by
Cameron D. Peebles
on 29 July, 2009 - 12:17pm
Last updated 17 February, 2012 - 9:39am
Moved
Moved from
Bee-like Robber Flies
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norman and cheryl lavers
, 8 November, 2009 - 11:23am
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Moved
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Cameron D. Peebles
, 31 July, 2009 - 11:15am
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You could try here
If you tag your images and post to this link,
http://bugguide.net/node/view/5234/bgimage
, the experts will likely be able to help. I'm new to robbers so am little help. It looks like the hair on yours extends further down the abdomen than some of the posted grossa like this:
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M Whalen
, 29 July, 2009 - 7:33pm
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Clarify please
I'm new to this website, so forgive my dumb question. What should I tag them as?
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Cameron D. Peebles
, 30 July, 2009 - 8:42am
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No problem
You can get a lot from the Help page, it's worth looking at. Here's what you can do now: Open your post, like this, and just above the thumbnail images you'll see the words "tag all". Click on that and you'll see all the images on the left side of the web page. Then navigate to the page where you want to move them (navigation can take a while unless you're a bug expert). For these specific images you could just click on this:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/5234/bgimage
and that will take you to the Laphria root images page.
For unknown Laphria you go there and click "move tagged images" and it will move your "tagged" postings there. Then the robber fly experts are more likely to see it/them. You might even want to just move them to the Asilidae root page. I'm not positive where they're more likely to be seen but I'd go with Laphria for now.
There are different ways to navigate to a species. You could use the Taxonomy page to start with and when you drill down to the species you want, you then click the "Images" tab and you can either post new photos there (add image) or tag and move images like you're going to do now.
I hope that helps. It took me a while to figure out what works best for the experts and I still have more to learn. Others have helped me out a lot with their suggestions, too. A lot of us on here are beginners.
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M Whalen
, 30 July, 2009 - 7:32pm
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cool
I think I did it! Thanks for the help!
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Cameron D. Peebles
, 31 July, 2009 - 11:16am
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