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Fruit Fly? - Chrysops moechus - female
Copyright © 2010 Audrey R Hoff

Fruit Fly? - Chrysops moechus - Female
Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
June 4, 2010
A little fly attracted to UV lights. I've scanned through the Fruit Flies and the Picture-winged flies, can't find this one.
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Contributed by Audrey R Hoff on 6 June, 2010 - 5:29pm
Last updated 5 December, 2012 - 10:11pm

Moved
Moved from Chrysops.
… Keith Bayless, 20 December, 2010 - 7:14pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Audrey R Hoff, 6 June, 2010 - 6:15pm login or register to post comments

Deer fly is more like it
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… Vespula Vulgaris, 6 June, 2010 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Vespula!
Silly me - it was much larger than a fruit fly. And, I had been slapping them off me earlier in the afternoon!
… Audrey R Hoff, 6 June, 2010 - 6:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Chrysops moechus
It looks like a Chrysops moechus. There is a super awesome Chrysops online key on the University of Alberta site. This is the moechus part: http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/ejournal/tm_08/chrysops37.htm
… envytea, 8 June, 2010 - 12:33am login or register to post comments

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