Peter Dexter
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Parasitic fly
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Family: Tachinidae
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Asher Kelman
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Peter that’s one extraordinary and hardy looking pest! So who or what does it parasitize?
There’s a burrowing, grain and seed collecting and hoarding underground spider that nurtures blind mice in their caverns!
Asher
There’s a burrowing, grain and seed collecting and hoarding underground spider that nurtures blind mice in their caverns!
Asher
Dr Klaus Schmitt
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Excellent macro work!!
Jerome Marot
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As larva, it is a parasite of larvae of other insects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachina_fera The adult insect you see here feeds on flowers. This is probably why it has hairs.
Very nice image, BTW.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Thanks Jerome. I got so fascinated that I spent an hour voraciously reading up everything I could about this class of parasitic insects. Amazingly there are 80,000 or more species. Think how few apes species there are and just one variant hominid!
Asher