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Index of Subjects --1706509047-1821400550-1381405175=:36914 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Nancy,=0A=0AYour fly is certainly a syrphid. It is Eristalis transversa.= The opaque yellow scutellum (the yellow bulb at the hind end of the thorax= ) separates this species from others in the genus. Take a look at=A0http://= www.canacoll.org/Diptera/Staff/Skevington/Syrphidae/speciespages.htm. There= you can navigate to the species to see diagnostic characters pointed out, = and you can look at other Eristalis species and other syrphid species that = occur in eastern North America.=0A=0ACheers,=0AJohn=0A=0A=0A=0AOn Thursday,= October 10, 2013 8:09:01 AM, nancy dowd <nancypdowd@gmail.com> wrote:=0A = =0AI thought this was a bee when I was taking its picture but I think it is= a Syrphid Fly (details in captions):=0A=0Ahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/929= 81528@N08/10186127535/=0Ahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/10186039= 824/=0A=0APerhaps someone knows its ID and/or something about it?=0A=0ANanc= y --1706509047-1821400550-1381405175=:36914 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body><div style=3D"color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:He= lveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;fo= nt-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi Nancy,</span></div><div style=3D"color: rgb(0, = 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helve= tica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; fo= nt-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0)= ; font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica,= Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-st= yle: normal;"><span>Your fly is certainly a syrphid. It is Eristalis transv= ersa. The opaque yellow scutellum (the yellow bulb at the hind end of the t= horax) separates this species from others in the genus. Take a look at = ;</span><a href=3D"http://www.canacoll.org/Diptera/Staff/Skevington/Syrphid= ae/speciespages.htm" style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">http://www.canacoll.org/Diptera/Staff/Skevington/Syrphidae/speciesp= ages.htm</a>. There you can navigate to the species to see diagnostic chara= cters pointed out, and you can look at other Eristalis species and other sy= rphid species that occur in eastern North America.</div><div style=3D"color= : rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neu= e', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transp= arent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fo= nt-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Ari= al, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:= normal;">Cheers,</div><div style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; = font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Gra= nde', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">John<= /div><div class=3D"yahoo_quoted" style=3D"display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style=3D"font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, '= Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style=3D"font-family: H= elveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-ser= if; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir=3D"ltr"> <font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial"> O= n Thursday, October 10, 2013 8:09:01 AM, nancy dowd <nancypdowd@gmail.co= m> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class=3D"y_msg_container">I thought t= his was a bee when I was taking its picture but I think it is a Syrphid Fly= (details in captions):<br><br><a href=3D"http://www.flickr.com/photos/9298= 1528@N08/10186127535/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981= 528@N08/10186127535/</a><br><a href=3D"http://www.flickr.com/photos/9298152= 8@N08/10186039824/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528= @N08/10186039824/</a><br><br>Perhaps someone knows its ID and/or something = about it?<br><br>Nancy<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></bod= y></html> --1706509047-1821400550-1381405175=:36914--
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