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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Polleniidae » Cluster flies (Pollenia) » Pollenia rudis
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Diptera, but what else? - Pollenia rudis
Copyright © 2006 Mardon Erbland

Diptera, but what else? - Pollenia rudis
Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
May 25, 2006
Size: 10 mm Body Length
This fly was sitting on the outside of our house, on the wooden frame around a bedroom window. The photos have not been rotated, so where the fly is pointed down, he was pointing toward the ground. The photos were taken around 5:00 PM. His tongue was going in and out as I was taking the photos. He posed for quite a while before flying away. I would have thought this was an ordinary house fly but I think that implies Musca domestica and this does not look like the other flies currently posted as that species. Any ID?

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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 25 May, 2006 - 7:47pm
Last updated 28 September, 2019 - 11:33am

Moved
Moved from Cluster flies.
… John F. Carr, 28 September, 2019 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Calyptratae.
… John F. Carr, 13 August, 2012 - 9:16pm login or register to post comments

from Dr. Woodley:
"kind of looks like Pollenia, but I can't see any golden hairs on the thorax"
… v belov, 15 May, 2009 - 11:36am login or register to post comments

from Dr. Terry Whitworth:
"Probably not a calliphorid (see non-metallic abdomen); focus isn't great but maybe muscid or tachinid"

Moved from Blow Flies.
… v belov, 14 May, 2009 - 10:43pm login or register to post comments

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