Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Oestrus ovis?

Posted by sd on 03-07-2008 23:15
#1

Would be pleased to have id confirmed. It was well camouflaged on the brick wall of our house!

size: approx 10mm
2nd July 2008
Location- Suffolk, UK

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 04-07-2008 00:54
#2

i love this family. So unusual flies. Oestridae. :)
I think they were much more common than nowadays. Actually they are rarely seen. At least, I never saw one. :( And I was near horses, sheeps, and other mammals... :S

Posted by ChrisR on 04-07-2008 12:44
#3

I don't have the key handy but iooks very similar to the specimen I caught in a Malaise trap a few years ago in south Oxon :)

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 04-07-2008 20:33
#4

Fascinating fly.