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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » House Flies and kin (Muscidae) » Muscinae » Blood-feeding Muscidae (Stomoxyini) » Stomoxys » Stable Fly (Stomoxys calcitrans)
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fly on goldenrod - Stomoxys calcitrans
Copyright © 2011 Beatriz Moisset

fly on goldenrod - Stomoxys calcitrans
Cape May Point, Cape May County, New Jersey, USA
October 5, 2011
It looks similar to one I saw on milkweed years ago. Maybe this time it will be possible to get an ID. See: this one.
It has an impressive snout.

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fly on goldenrod - Stomoxys calcitrans fly on goldenrod - Stomoxys calcitrans
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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 10 October, 2011 - 4:16pm
Last updated 6 January, 2019 - 5:53pm

Moved
Moved from Muscoidea.
I think you are right. Thanks.
… Beatriz Moisset, 17 October, 2011 - 7:32pm login or register to post comments

Might be this one - Stomoxys
Might be this one - Stomoxys calcitrans - Stable Fly
… Lynn Bergen, 10 October, 2011 - 5:17pm login or register to post comments

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