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| Muhammad Mahdi |
Posted on 10-02-2009 21:40
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 Member Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Posts: 447 Joined: 26.12.08 |
A small fly, I think it was a bee. There was a tiny hall in the wall from which the flies were emerging. There were hundreds of the flies on the surface of the wall and they didn't sting me even though they were landing on my body. Each fly was about 7mm long. Pictured in Tanzania.   
Muhammad ____________________ www.micro2macro.net |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 10-02-2009 21:54
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yes - bees - not Diptera so moved to the correct forum  |
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| pierred |
Posted on 11-02-2009 07:46
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 Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1448 Joined: 21.04.05 |
It should be Meliponini.
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| Muhammad Mahdi |
Posted on 11-02-2009 15:58
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Member Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Posts: 447 Joined: 26.12.08 |
Thanks pierred and sorry Chris for posting in the wrong forum. Any chance of getting the genus? Muhammad ____________________ www.micro2macro.net |
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| Muhammad Mahdi |
Posted on 04-04-2009 12:49
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Member Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Posts: 447 Joined: 26.12.08 |
bump! Any chance of genus? Muhammad ____________________ www.micro2macro.net |
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