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------=_Part_72_14164860.1225314219232 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I had large numbers of these flies at my cottage near Port Hilford ( about 10k N of Sherbrooke, Guys. Co ) this weekend , also lots of Wooly Aphids (Genus *Eriosoma)* flying around. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Stephen Shaw <srshaw@dal.ca> wrote: > In October-November, we sometimes see the odd specimen of a little black > "March > fly" usually perched on the white siding of the house. Has anyone else > been > seeing unusually large numbers of these flies this year? I have a live > trap in > the garden and it caught another 10 today, the third such hoard since 21 > October. > > These are small black flies ~8 mm long, in which the male has bilobed eyes > with > a huge upper lobe used in swarm-mating behaviour, for spotting females > above > which have flown up through the male swarm; the female's eyes are > relatively > small. These are flies from the family Bibionidae, from the "lower", older > half of the Diptera (Nematocera or long-horns), and key out easily to the > genus > Bibio. It is hard to get much further to the actual species of Bibio -- > Bugguide.net doesn't have much to offer. Does anyone happen to have > identified > this late-emerging Bibio as to species? > > The familiar name "March fly", in this case obviously inappropriate, seems > to > have originated in UK. One species there commonly emerges early in the > year, a > sign that March has arrived, and with it, finally, Spring (would we could > say > that here). > Steve > Halifax > > -- Rick Ballard Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, Canada http://www.ideaphore.com ------=_Part_72_14164860.1225314219232 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I had large numbers of these flies at my cottage near Port Hilford ( about 10k N of Sherbrooke, Guys. Co ) this weekend , also lots of Wooly Aphids (<font size="2">Genus <i>Eriosoma)</i></font> flying around.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Stephen Shaw <span dir="ltr"><srshaw@dal.ca></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> In October-November, we sometimes see the odd specimen of a little black "March<br> fly" usually perched on the white siding of the house. Has anyone else been<br> seeing unusually large numbers of these flies this year? I have a live trap in<br> the garden and it caught another 10 today, the third such hoard since 21<br> October.<br> <br> These are small black flies ~8 mm long, in which the male has bilobed eyes with<br> a huge upper lobe used in swarm-mating behaviour, for spotting females above<br> which have flown up through the male swarm; the female's eyes are relatively<br> small. These are flies from the family Bibionidae, from the "lower", older<br> half of the Diptera (Nematocera or long-horns), and key out easily to the genus<br> Bibio. It is hard to get much further to the actual species of Bibio --<br> Bugguide.net doesn't have much to offer. Does anyone happen to have identified<br> this late-emerging Bibio as to species?<br> <br> The familiar name "March fly", in this case obviously inappropriate, seems to<br> have originated in UK. One species there commonly emerges early in the year, a<br> sign that March has arrived, and with it, finally, Spring (would we could say<br> that here).<br> Steve<br> Halifax<br> <br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Rick Ballard <br>Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, Canada <br>http://www.ideaphore.com<br> ------=_Part_72_14164860.1225314219232--
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