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Golden Deer Fly - Silvius gigantulus - female
Copyright © 2012 Aaron Schusteff

Golden Deer Fly - Silvius gigantulus - Female
North of Johnsondale, west of the Kern River, Sequoia National Forest, Tulare County, California, USA
June 9, 2010
Identified as Silvius gigantulus using Middlekauff(1) and web resources. Must be a female, as is was trying to feed on me. (Males feed on nectar and other plant exudates.) They slice the skin with their knife-like maxilla and then lap at blood flowing from the incision. (Didn't get me this time.)
Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 20 June, 2012 - 12:48am

Moved
Moved from Silvius.
… Aaron Schusteff, 20 June, 2012 - 12:49am

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