Typical Flies; a Photographic Atlas of Diptera, Including Aphaniptera
Typical Flies; a Photographic Atlas of Diptera, Including Aphaniptera
Ethel Katharine Pearce
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s^ Fig. 102. Baccha elongata Fabr. $ 10 x 16 mm. Found in woods and fields in May, easily missed, on low herbage. Fig. 103. A set a podagrica Fabr. $ 6 x ,0 '5 mm- (Colchester.) CYCLORRHAPHA Proboscidea Syrphidae Fig. 104. Rhingia campestris Meig. ? 9 x19 mm. Amongst flowers in gardens and fields, quite common. Figs. 105, 106. (Volucellinae) Volucetla bombylans Linn. & 15 x31mm., ? 15 x30 mm. (Yellow form.) Partial to brambles and other flowers, June and July, a variable species. The larvae liv...e in nests of bees, especially B. lapidarius and B. derhannellus, the flies having a red tail, in those of B. hortorum and B. jonellus, the flies having a white tail. (Theobald.) CYCLORRHAPHA Proboscidea 32 Syrphidae .-^- Fig. 107. (Volucellinae) Volucella pellucens Linn. 9 16 x 32 mm. Seen on briar hedges, Bournemouth. The larva lives in bumble-bees' nests. Fig. 108. (Eristalinae) Eristalis tenax Linn. $ 15x28 mm. The common " Drone-fly," hovering over flowers. The larva or "rat- tailed maggot" lives in foul pools and ditches.
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