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Posted on 20-06-2007 19:34
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Can anyone help me with this one, seen by a stream on various foliage - brambles, nettles, umbellifers, grasses - in Staffordshire, UK.
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Chrysopilus cristatus male (Rhagionidae)
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Tony Irwin wrote:
Chrysopilus cristatus male (Rhagionidae)


Hi Tony, many thanks for the speedy ID - I'm glad you could tell at all from this rather poor photograph!

Jez
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Hey - the photo's OK! ... and this is one of the most conspicuous waterside flies at this time of yearWink
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Tony Irwin wrote:
Hey - the photo's OK! ... and this is one of the most conspicuous waterside flies at this time of yearWink


Yes, they were all over the vegetation where I was walking yesterday! Thanks again, Tony.
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