[NatureNS] Flies on Seal Island

Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:57:50 -0300
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Blake Maybank wrote:

> While Hans Toom and Gary Murray were busy photographing birds and 
> scenery on Seal Island this past weekend, I took a lead from Angus 
> Maclean, and looked down.   The sheep on Seal greatly restrict the 
> presence of flowers, but there were a few goldenrods that eluded the 
> bovine teeth, and there were large numbers of colourful flies feeding 
> on the nectar.  
>
> I have tried to identify the flies using the BugGuide on the internet 
> (it is a fine site).   I have placed images of the two different flies 
> I photographed on the following web page:

Hi Blake & All,        Oct 14, 2006
The images on
http://www.canacoll.org/Diptera/Staff/Skevington/Syrphidae/Eristalis/Eristalis_Plate_2a.jpg
and associated pages tend to be better.
Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville

>
> http://maybank.tripod.com/naturens/inverts.htm
>
> I thought one was a Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax), and I used the 
> following page for comparisons:
>
> http://bugguide.net/node/view/7183
>
> The following image seemed a very close match:
>
> http://bugguide.net/node/view/47586
>
> The other, smaller fly, I have identified as a Transverse Flower Fly ( 
> Eristalis transversa), and for this I used the following page:
>
> http://bugguide.net/node/view/9099
>
> The following image seemed a close match:
>
> http://bugguide.net/node/view/28797
>
> However, these flies seem to be a tricky group, so if anyone finds a 
> mistake in my identification, I'd love to hear about it. 
>
> I neglected to bring my insect net, as I thought there would be no 
> dragonflies, but a number were flying around, though none of them was 
> strongly marked, and a few were the dreaded meadowhawks.   For 
> butterflies we had many Monarchs and Red Admirals, and a few American 
> Coppers, American Ladies, and Clouded Sulphurs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Blake Maybank
> Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds"
>
> author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia"
> http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm
>
> 144 Bayview Drive
> White's Lake, Nova Scotia,
> B3T 1Z1, Canada
>
> maybank@ns.sympatico.ca
> (902) 852-2077
>
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