Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Pollenia sp
Posted by crex on 01-09-2006 09:10
#1
I guess this is one of the boring (=unidentifyable)
Pollenia species? From aprox 65 km NW of Stockholm, Sweden 2006-08-31. First two images of a female.
Edited by crex on 03-12-2006 16:22
Posted by crex on 01-09-2006 09:11
#2
Another view of the female.
Posted by crex on 01-09-2006 09:12
#3
... and the male.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 01-09-2006 09:24
#4
Hi Crex.
This season, I have at least dozen of Pollenia sp. on each window of my countryhouse. Unidentified and unpleasant gests...
Nikita
Posted by Susan R Walter on 01-09-2006 13:41
#5
Hence their English name of Cluster Fly. They can appear in enormous numbers, and year after year. Often they occur in only one or two rooms of the house, but the same room/s every year. I have been in country houses where every step crunched when you walked across an attic room because you were crushing accumulated deceased Pollenia and Vespula. They are the bane of the house staff in the houses they take a fancy to, and the bodies have to be vacuumed up on a daily basis.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 01-09-2006 14:30
#6
1,5 years ago I came on Diptera.info trying to ID Pollenia...
http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=348&pid=1267#post_1267
Nikita
Posted by crex on 01-09-2006 16:53
#7
Thank you Susan and Nikita. Is it only Pollenia that has the golden haired thorax, I wonder?
Posted by Tony Irwin on 01-09-2006 21:06
#8
As far as I know,
Pollenia is the only European calypterate to have wavy golden hair. There are a few tachinds that have golden hair (thinking of
Tachina ursina) but none has wavy hair like
Pollenia.