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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies (Bibionomorpha) » Fungus Gnats and Gall Midges (Sciaroidea) » Gall Midges and Wood Midges (Cecidomyiidae) » Wood Midges (Lestremiinae) » Anarete
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Tiny fly - Anarete - male
Copyright © 2013 Harlan Ratcliff

Tiny fly - Anarete - Male
Minburn Road near Beaver Creek, Dallas County, Iowa, USA
August 24, 2013
Size: 1.7 mm
As I was driving into Granger to get my early morning diet coke, newspaper, and cookies I saw clouds rising from the vegetation in the roadside ditch. It was thousands of these tiny flies, apparently in some kind of lek activity. I was able to capture a small number with my hand, and this is the best photo I was able to get. I would guess the larva are aquatic and live in the mud of nearby Beaver Creek. Second and third attached photos show the lek swarms.

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Contributed by Harlan Ratcliff on 24 August, 2013 - 10:47am
Last updated 22 September, 2013 - 11:14am

Moved
Moved from Gnats, Gall Midges, and March Flies.
… John F. Carr, 22 September, 2013 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 22 September, 2013 - 8:54am login or register to post comments

Scatopsidae?
Scatopsidae?
… John F. Carr, 25 August, 2013 - 10:13pm login or register to post comments

 
or perhaps
Cecidomyiidae near Anarete?
… Brad Barnd, 25 August, 2013 - 11:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Could be
Could be. I can't make out the wing veins.
… John F. Carr, 19 September, 2013 - 2:45pm login or register to post comments

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