A flower-feeding march fly at QPRC LGA
Identification history
| Scaptia (Scaptia) auriflua | 16 Feb 2024 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 13 Feb 2024 | Simone |
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User's notes
Beautiful medium sized fly. Large blue green eyes with black, orange, white, grey patterned body.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.241422-35.205051
- Places Sutton, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 13 Feb 2024 08:54 AM Recorded on
- Simone Recorded by
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Insects True flies (Diptera) March or Horse flies (Tabanidae) Simone Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Fleabane (I think). Associated plant
- There was a very small caterpillar nearby Associated Insect
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
- Resting Insect behaviour on flower
- True Pollinator Insect on Flower
Species information
- Scaptia (Scaptia) auriflua Scientific name
- A flower-feeding march fly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1096.7m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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